Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
When Trevor Hohns awoke, his head was throbbing. Groaning, he hauled himself into the sitting position. Bit by bit, the room came into focus. Paper was strewn everywhere, crumpled and torn. A whiteboard in one corner was covered in thick red crosses and lines, also something that trickled. Underneath it, sitting on top of a pile of pizza boxes, was an Under 19 tour handbook and a sheaf of cricinfo print-outs.
For so long, the Australian cricket team's hallmark has been its swagger and braggadocio ... but no longer after Tuesday's surrender to South Africa in the second Test.
Since Australian cricket doesn't know whether it is Arthur or Martha, then at least let the choice between young Artie and little Mattie.
It's all Shane Warne's fault. Or Warne's and Glenn McGrath's together. It's Adam Gilchrist's fault. Jacques Kallis is to blame and so is Andrew Flintoff.
"Tangles" because of his distinctive action, Max Walker actually was as uncomplicated as his big toothy grin, his other trademark.
More than half of international cricketers might choose the freedom to play T20 club cricket over a Test contract, a survey indicates.
Australia's sailors were out to scoop the pool on Guanabara Bay.
although Boomers still haven't beaten them, they are getting close enough to smell it
Is world sport prepared to finish what Mack Horton and Lilly King have started? By world sport, I mean not just athletes and authorities, but media and fans and the pressure they can bring to bear.Â
The Olympics fancy themselves as the United Nations of sport, but this week would be described by foreign correspondents as a ticking time bomb.
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