Keywords: Cricket Australia
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INTERNATIONAL
- Anthony
- 10 September 2013
17 Comments
The United States, a country of cricket illiteracy, spent more than $1 million constructing the Kabul Cricket Stadium, recognising the major impact cricket is having in the country. Australia, one of cricket's 'first nations', has done nothing. It is tragic that, for ordinary Afghans, the vast majority of whom have never considered seeking asylum, Australia's most visible contribution to their country is the message to 'keep away'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 19 June 2013
6 Comments
Comparison of these two cases is illuminating. One is the recruit to the Australia A cricket team, Pakistani born Fawad Ahmed. The other is, in Tony Abbott's words, the 'convicted Jihadist terrorist', Egyptian born Sayed Ahmed Abullatif. Ahmed will be the second Pakistani born cricketer in an Australian side that desperately needs a good leg-spinner. Abdullatif has possibly a more difficult road ahead.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 15 January 2013
10 Comments
Professional sport is driven by two competing forces: the pursuit of unrealistic achievement and the need to be entertaining. Shane Warne has spent his career playing buffoon-genius, and cricket now celebrates the buffoon over the genius. It remains to be seen if tennis' Bernard Tomic can escape the pressure of his own ego.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Nadine Rabah
- 31 August 2011
43 Comments
My childhood memories are filled with stereotypical Aussie pastimes such as backyard cricket. But as a Muslim, I do feel like an outsider at times. Why do we constantly have to be portrayed as evil people? 'We're not all like that', I find myself shouting at certain news stories.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 05 August 2011
1 Comment
Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm makes one marvel at the way events separated by vast times and distances can conspire to produce unpredictable results. In 1959 Australian cricket great Richie Benaud found himself at the end of a chain of events set in motion by Mahatma Gandhi.
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AUSTRALIA
As some recent Australian elections have shown, leaders do not always let go in time to avoid embarrassment. Retiring Australian cricket captian Ricky Ponting usually behaved with dignity. But there are moments he'd no doubt prefer to expunge from the record.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 07 January 2011
3 Comments
The fortunes of the English and Australian cricket teams follow the fortunes of their nations' conservative governments.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 December 2009
2 Comments
January 1961: the fourth Ashes test. On the eve of the final day, with Australia's plight looking grim, we
went to a Chinese restaurant. We'd just given our
orders when Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey, Allan Davidson and Ken
'Slasher' Mackay walked in.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 June 2009
3 Comments
What do footballers who give photographers the bird, comedians who make
jokes about sick children, boat owners who bring asylum seekers to
Australian shores, cooks who swear, and cricketers who drink have in
common?
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 27 January 2009
20 Comments
Today's commentators seem determined to speak about anything but the
cricket — their lunches, last night's frivolities, films, politics and, most of all, themselves. Much more than the Australian players, Test cricket commentators are in crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 23 October 2008
The creed of Roy Slaven and H. G. Nelson is that too much sport is barely enough. While Ricky Ponting has denied talk of a falling out with his chief 'quick' Brett Lee, the plight of the Australian team in India proves there is such a thing as too much cricket.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 23 September 2008
1 Comment
Peter Taylor, selected straight from .. Petersham firsts to bowl his offies .. for the baggy green, taught us how .. the 'Strayan dream can fizz and spit .. through Sydney's fond atmosphere.
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