Clive Rice, Arthur Morris and Brian Close
Farewell to three men of renown They flourished in different eras. A montage of their highlights would show very few similarities, but it would reveal that each was a hard…
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Frank Tyson and Lindsay Kline
We’ve been doing far too many of these lately. Two more great characters of the game, Frank Tyson and Lindsay Kline, passed since we last went to print. Normally we’d…
George Daldry
George Daldry introduced new conditioning methods at a time when a game like Rugby League was always going to frown upon a “fitness guru”. When “joggers” were a source of…
Johnny Gleeson
“Mystery spinners” are like outstanding batting champions and dizzyingly swift fast bowlers. They come along all-too infrequently, and when they do, the cricket world loves them. Richie Benaud ranked Johnny…
Max Walker
Life. To the Max Sometimes, when a beloved figure dies, it feels like an offence against humanity; an injury. When Max Walker passed in September to a sinister disease, nature…
Mitchell Johnson
At an age when most quicks contemplate a life of payback for the things they did to their bodies as young men, the remarkable Mitchell Johnson made the transition from…
Muhammad Ali
As a social activist and courageous victim of a vicious, duplicitous establishment, he was one of the very few authentic existential heroes sport had seen. Yes, it’s true that he…
Phillip Hughes
I’m writing this in the minutes after his passing. The cricket community is numb with grief. To those at the epicentre, to Sean Abbott and those closest to Phil Hughes…
Richie Benaud
What should I be commenting on? The recent, aborted bid to overthrow the leadership of world cricket? A revolution is brewing, after all. Or perhaps the heated debate over Pietersen’s…
Ingo and Chequi
In the last fortnight, boxing lost two famous world champions—Ingemar Johansson and Jose Torres. Johansson was the last white world heavyweight champion from the days when there was only one…
Vic Patrick
In August, we said farewell to a man who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Bradman in Australia’s consciousness during and after WW2. Victor Patrick Lucca, a slight, skinny son of Italian migrants,…
Throw it out!
The day after MCC cricket law 41.5 was passed in September, Marnus Labuschagne of the Queensland Bulls broke it. The law states, “It is unfair for any fielder wilfully to…
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