by PAUL COLLITS – IT ISN’T often that I refuse to put on the Boxing Day Test. Not even the decades-long jingoistic commentary of the Channel Nine commentators which the Packer revolution spawned could keep me away, let alone the increasingly progressivist…
by PAUL COLLITS – YOU always know when the cricket season begins in Australia. No, it isn’t the cracking of willow on leather, or even the endless, jingoistic marketing of the summer game. Rather, there is suddenly in-your-face virtue signalling. On all…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE list of sins of Australian cricket’s administrators and its practitioners is long and impressive. Where to start? One statistic might help to set the scene. During the COVID “pandemic”, Cricket Australia announced that, reluctantly, it had to…
by PAUL COLLITS – EVEN the most casual observers would have noticed the now rampant mission creep moving progressively – and I do mean progressively – through our once august, now merely tedious, corporate, sporting bodies. First it was Essendon, egged on…
by PAUL COLLITS – “REMEMBER man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shall return”. Catholics and other Christians familiar with Ash Wednesday rituals (and Genesis) will be familiar with these words. They remind us of the fragility of earthly life…
IAN Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with searingly honest analysis of the game for many decades. Perhaps his most perceptive insight was his claim that a cricket coach should…
