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.
Cricket NSW chief Andrew Jones was reprimanded and handed a $3000 suspended fine for publicly arguing against a decision by Cricket Australia to award victory to Victoria in a domestic one-day clash at the weekend.
Cricket's players' association president Greg Dyer has declared there must never again be a pay dispute of this year's magnitude and has called on Cricket Australia to review its "behaviours and tactics".
While Kevin Pietersen has declared his English Twenty20 career is over, the Melbourne Stars hope the England batting great has more than a season left in his Big Bash League career.
David Warner's call to arms for his teammates to find their inner "hatred" of England this summer has been labelled "pathetic" and mocked by the Old Enemy.
Australia will head home from India on Saturday after the final Twenty20 delighted that 16 months of regular cricket on the subcontinent and through Asia have come to an end.
Bernard Tomic may have to seek a wildcard into the 2018 Australian Open unless his ranking dramatically improves before the end of the year.
North Melbourne forward Ben Brown has capped a superb season by re-signing for another two years.
North Melbourne coach Brad Scott has praised the courage of first-year skipper Jack Ziebell, revealing he took to the field this year battling immense pain because of a series of injuries.
Geelong chief executive Brian Cook has turned the spotlight on Cats' supporters, questioning whether they are suffering "finals fatigue" after a decade of success.
It's a process that's been seven years in the making, but the Tigers are now two games away from the ultimate payoff.
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