For years disgruntled Australian rugby fans called on the Wallabies to let their actions do the talking. Now they have a figurehead who will preach that message. Schmidt the coach is one of the great modern-day rugby tacticians, but a promoter he is not. If Australian rugby fans wanted someone different from Eddie Jones, they’ve […]
Josh Hazlewood says he’s not a numbers guy. So he’s not going to rave about joining a rare club in Australian cricket: bowlers with 250 or more Test wickets. Hazlewood achieved the milestone on Australia’s dominant opening day of the first Test against the West Indies in Adelaide. The Australians bowled the tourists out for 188 […]
If you’re good, people expect more of you. This has pretty much always been the problem with Josh Schuster: his talent, even when fleeting, is there for all to see. We hold him to a higher standard because there’s the feeling that he’s a lot better than he is showing – not least because when […]
Olympic champion Alexander Zverev snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a five-set marathon win over Lukas Klein. In a see-sawing second-round encounter on John Cain Arena, Zverev was two points away from elimination when serving to stay in the match at 5-6 in the fifth set, but held his nerve to oust the […]
One of the absolute joys that makes test cricket unique is there is no other sport where records set, whether by intent or by accident over 100 years ago can survive. The first test set a record that 2522 tests later still hasn’t been broken (Charles Bannerman’s 165, the highest individual share of runs in […]
