Take a break, Nick

Nick Kyrgios, enough. This has to stop. He has to stop. For his own sake, for tennis's, for ours.

Meeting of unequal equals follows predictable course

They call it a match, implying equal terms, but it isn't, not when it's against Serena Williams in the first round of a major. This much Belinda Bencic now knows.

Murray gets a title at the Australian Open

Game, set and match, Sir Andy Murray.

Kyrgios and Dangerfield: off message, on song

Fake news has been with us longer than you might imagine.

Renegades reign, Melbourne pours in

Another Melbourne derby, another BBL uptick. Undeterred by the woozy weather, more than 71,000 crammed into the MCG to see the the Renegades upset the Stars, also to see themselves on television. One way or another, they got what they came for. The final margin, seven runs, was deceptively close, but is it not always in Twenty20 cricket?

Smith's men pull one out of the fire

Herewith a lesson in not giving up, for Australia, for the Boxing Day faithful, for Test cricket aficionados everywhere.

Boxing day cricket: nice as far as it went

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Two running jokes - one modern, one age-old - framed day one at the MCG. The first acted as a Boxing Day heart-starter, the other to put a summary and soggy end to it.

A straight bat: Handscomb's cricketing journey to the MCG

Peter Handscomb says he cannot begin to count the number of people who have given him advice on his batting technique. The first was his father, John, on their driveway at home. And it's his words that will resonate when Handscomb makes his MCG debut on Boxing Day.

May day for ACA as lightning strikes twice

Stand fast on revenue-sharing model, Tim May urges cricketers.