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Jon Pierik

Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.

Jimmy Bartel has quit the AFL's match review panel.

Bartel: Time to review the match review panel

Former Geelong premiership star Jimmy Bartel has called for an overhaul of the match review panel, declaring on-field reports should be broken into "football and non-football" incidents.

Carlton greats Robert Walls, Stephen Kernahan and David Rhys-Jones celebrate the 30-year anniversary.

Minute by minute: how the Blues won the '87 premiership

Carlton will this weekend celebrate the 30th anniversary of their premiership against Hawthorn that came at a time when the Blues were a power club. The 1987 flag erased the pain of the losing 1986 grand-final, also against the Hawks. Robert Walls, having enjoyed three flags as a player with the Blues, was coach, the legendary Stephen Kernahan was captain and David Rhys-Jones claimed the Norm Smith.

Hard to replace: Paceman Mitchell Starc is recovering from a foot injury.

Bangladesh tour: Who replaces Starc?

While the nervous wait for a new pay deal is over for Australia's cricketers, for a handful of fast bowlers there is now a waiting game of another kind.