Month: October 2015

Don Bradman and the summer of ’63

Never before has a Prime Minister’s XI game assumed such significance. Not only will a pink ball be tested ahead of next month’s Adelaide Test, the Australians have picked a virtual Test squad of batsmen to face the Kiwi swing kings ahead of the first Test in a fortnight. In years gone by the PM’s […]

Vics still alive in the Matador

Few teams can defend 240 at tiny North Sydney but the Vics got lucky on Sunday, with Steve Smith resting and in-form Shane Watson yet again falling lbw when he was well set. Scott Boland took two of the last three wickets, a delicious irony given he was under the pump to perform with many […]

Kiwis the star attraction this summer

Red-ball cricket takes precedence, at least temporarily, with the start of the Trans-Tasman Tests in Brisbane. It is five years since the New Zealanders have been in Australia for Chappell-Hadlee Test action and for once they start as equal favorites with Australia’s new look Test team badly out of practice against the red ball. In […]

Kline’s life in cricket to be celebrated Monday

LINDSAY KLINE (1934-2015) The finale to the greatest Australian Test of all, the Brisbane tied Test, had a comic ending. Bosum buddies from Melbourne, tailenders Ian Meckiff and Lindsay Kline met in mid-pitch and vowed to play tippetty run. “If Lindsay hit it, I was off,” said Meckiff. “Wes Hall bounced in and I got […]