Are they that good or are we breaking bad?
The most frequently asked question this cricket season is: 'Are they that good or are we that bad?' Or, a year ago when Australia were playing the West Indies: 'Are they that bad or are we that good?'
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Malcolm Knox
How far is CA prepared to take day-nighters?
The promoters of day-night Test cricket have declared the experiment a success, yet it is far from a sure thing that next summer's Ashes series will feature a pink-ball game.
Wade changes tune of Australian team
Cometh the hour, cometh the annoying little prick. If the wicketkeeper is the drummer in a cricketing band, Australia had ditched Charlie Watts and brought in Keith Moon.
New boys must realise that cricket is a game of failure
It is impossible, given the resemblance, not to see Australia's 20-year-old debutant opening batsman Matt Renshaw as the new Matthew Hayden. Before we get carried away, though, we might remember that it took seven years before the old Matthew Hayden became Matthew Hayden.
Is it time to get rid of selectors and let the skipper choose?
There is no hiding from reality, and you have to wonder if the infantilising of our cricketers, with support staff to take every adult need away from them so that their minds are free to concentrate on cricket and cricket alone, is doing them a favour.
Lacking pride in the Baggy Green? If the cap fits...
After the humiliating defeat to South Africa, Steve Smith bemoaned a loss of pride in the Baggy Green ... while hiding under a sponsor's cap.
Australia take one small step on the road back to respectability
The question was, How would David Warner cope with being the most reviled Australian since wotsisname from The Bachelor picked the wrong girl?
While Australia destroy themselves, England destroy the game
The choice between watching grass growing in Hobart and Alastair Cook batting in India would normally be a no-brainer. But, given its relevance to the future of cricket, this column made an exception and watched the England captain in Rajkot.
South Africa expose the full scale of ineptitude
Cape Town, Birmingham, Nottingham, Galle, and now Hobart. Like falling cities in a losing war, the scenes of Australia's cricket disasters have come to our doorstep.
Why grassroots cricket is both healthy and sick
The best players are well cared for, but in Australia, once maturing cricketers understand that they are not going to play for their country, they find it harder and harder to see the point in playing at all.
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