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Brisbane Times

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Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Much as many would like to wall off this Test, it might not be possible. Besides, some five-day Tests of yore should have been euthanised before their...

yesterday 10

WA Today

Greg Baum

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Much as many would like to wall off this Test, it might not be possible. Besides, some five-day Tests of yore should have been euthanised before their...

yesterday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Much as many would like to wall off this Test, it might not be possible. Besides, some five-day Tests of yore should have been euthanised before their...

yesterday 10

The Age

Greg Baum

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Were you not entertained? Satisfied? Making sense of a rogue Boxing Day Test

Much as many would like to wall off this Test, it might not be possible. Besides, some five-day Tests of yore should have been euthanised before their...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

Boxing Day at the cricket is a tradition, which makes it significant outside the scoreline in any one series. It’s a secular feast day, with all...

25.12.2025 10

WA Today

Greg Baum

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

Boxing Day at the cricket is a tradition, which makes it significant outside the scoreline in any one series. It’s a secular feast day, with all...

25.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

Boxing Day at the cricket is a tradition, which makes it significant outside the scoreline in any one series. It’s a secular feast day, with all...

25.12.2025 10

The Age

Greg Baum

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

Boxing Day at the cricket is a tradition, which makes it significant outside the scoreline in any one series. It’s a secular feast day, with all...

25.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

At all the important junctures, Australia have outplayed England, simple as that. Bazball has failed not just on its own account, but because...

23.12.2025 9

WA Today

Greg Baum

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

At all the important junctures, Australia have outplayed England, simple as that. Bazball has failed not just on its own account, but because...

23.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

At all the important junctures, Australia have outplayed England, simple as that. Bazball has failed not just on its own account, but because...

23.12.2025 8

The Age

Greg Baum

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

At all the important junctures, Australia have outplayed England, simple as that. Bazball has failed not just on its own account, but because...

23.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but the time has come to put him back on the mantelpiece.

16.12.2025 9

WA Today

Greg Baum

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but the time has come to put him back on the mantelpiece.

16.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but the time has come to put him back on the mantelpiece.

16.12.2025 10

The Age

Greg Baum

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but the time has come to put him back on the mantelpiece.

16.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

Bazball is built on constant, frenetic, stampeding action, but sometimes the best thing to do in a cricket match is nothing.

09.12.2025 10

The Age

Greg Baum

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

Bazball is built on constant, frenetic, stampeding action, but sometimes the best thing to do in a cricket match is nothing.

08.12.2025 6

WA Today

Greg Baum

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

Bazball is built on constant, frenetic, stampeding action, but sometimes the best thing to do in a cricket match is nothing.

08.12.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

The passive-aggressive tactics that helped Australia smoke England out of the Ashes

Bazball is built on constant, frenetic, stampeding action, but sometimes the best thing to do in a cricket match is nothing.

08.12.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

A fix looking for a problem: Why the Ashes doesn’t need a pink-ball Test

Just because we can stage day-night Tests doesn’t mean we always must. And for all the fun-of-the-fair spectacle it creates, it still pales beside...

03.12.2025 8

WA Today

Greg Baum

A fix looking for a problem: Why the Ashes doesn’t need a pink-ball Test

Just because we can stage day-night Tests doesn’t mean we always must. And for all the fun-of-the-fair spectacle it creates, it still pales beside...

03.12.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

A fix looking for a problem: Why the Ashes doesn’t need a pink-ball Test

Just because we can stage day-night Tests doesn’t mean we always must. And for all the fun-of-the-fair spectacle it creates, it still pales beside...

03.12.2025 9

The Age

Greg Baum

A fix looking for a problem: Why the Ashes doesn’t need a pink-ball Test

Just because we can stage day-night Tests doesn’t mean we always must. And for all the fun-of-the-fair spectacle it creates, it still pales beside...

03.12.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

Australia’s luck in Perth looked like a masterstroke. Here’s a wet blanket

Australia’s astounding win in the first Test was catalysed by an accident, and injuries threaten to derail the series.

24.11.2025 10

WA Today

Greg Baum

Australia’s luck in Perth looked like a masterstroke. Here’s a wet blanket

Australia’s astounding win in the first Test was catalysed by an accident, and injuries threaten to derail the series.

24.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Australia’s luck in Perth looked like a masterstroke. Here’s a wet blanket

Australia’s astounding win in the first Test was catalysed by an accident, and injuries threaten to derail the series.

24.11.2025 5

The Age

Greg Baum

Australia’s luck in Perth looked like a masterstroke. Here’s a wet blanket

Australia’s astounding win in the first Test was catalysed by an accident, and injuries threaten to derail the series.

24.11.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

Form, injury, unrest, homesickness, fright: How England’s pre-Ashes bravado typically comes undone in Australia

Bellow as you like, England, lay claim to the Ashes, declare them to be coming home - but come back and see us when you’ve won a Test match.

16.11.2025 10

WA Today

Greg Baum

Form, injury, unrest, homesickness, fright: How England’s pre-Ashes bravado typically comes undone in Australia

Bellow as you like, England, lay claim to the Ashes, declare them to be coming home - but come back and see us when you’ve won a Test match.

16.11.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Form, injury, unrest, homesickness, fright: How England’s pre-Ashes bravado typically comes undone in Australia

Bellow as you like, England, lay claim to the Ashes, declare them to be coming home - but come back and see us when you’ve won a Test match.

16.11.2025 7

The Age

Greg Baum

Form, injury, unrest, homesickness, fright: How England’s pre-Ashes bravado typically comes undone in Australia

Bellow as you like, England, lay claim to the Ashes, declare them to be coming home - but come back and see us when you’ve won a Test match.

16.11.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

Sinner lifts the trophy, but the Open must beware the cup runneth over

Jannik Sinner and the Australian Open have in common the fact that the only thing that can beat them is to let success go to their heads.

26.01.2025 9

WA Today

Greg Baum

Sinner lifts the trophy, but the Open must beware the cup runneth over

Jannik Sinner and the Australian Open have in common the fact that the only thing that can beat them is to let success go to their heads.

26.01.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Sinner lifts the trophy, but the Open must beware the cup runneth over

Jannik Sinner and the Australian Open have in common the fact that the only thing that can beat them is to let success go to their heads.

26.01.2025 8

The Age

Greg Baum

Sinner lifts the trophy, but the Open must beware the cup runneth over

Jannik Sinner and the Australian Open have in common the fact that the only thing that can beat them is to let success go to their heads.

26.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

No 25th, and no guarantees for Novak

Having retired hurt from the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic is beginning to face his tennis mortality.

24.01.2025 9

WA Today

Greg Baum

No 25th, and no guarantees for Novak

Having retired hurt from the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic is beginning to face his tennis mortality.

24.01.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

No 25th, and no guarantees for Novak

Having retired hurt from the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic is beginning to face his tennis mortality.

24.01.2025 8

The Age

Greg Baum

No 25th, and no guarantees for Novak

Having retired hurt from the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic is beginning to face his tennis mortality.

24.01.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

Shelton thinks players are being disrespected? We’re shocked

Fast-rising American Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are insulting players at the Open. He needs to lighten up. 

23.01.2025 4

WA Today

Greg Baum

Shelton thinks players are being disrespected? We’re shocked

Fast-rising American Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are insulting players at the Open. He needs to lighten up. 

23.01.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

Shelton thinks players are being disrespected? We’re shocked

Fast-rising American Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are insulting players at the Open. He needs to lighten up. 

23.01.2025 10

The Age

Greg Baum

Shelton thinks players are being disrespected? We’re shocked

Fast-rising American Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are insulting players at the Open. He needs to lighten up. 

23.01.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

It was highly anticipated, but not unpredictable: Sinner was heavenly, the Demon exorcised

This was really no contest: Jannik Sinner showed Alex de Minaur just how big the gulf is between No.8 and No.1.

22.01.2025 10

WA Today

Greg Baum

It was highly anticipated, but not unpredictable: Sinner was heavenly, the Demon exorcised

This was really no contest: Jannik Sinner showed Alex de Minaur just how big the gulf is between No.8 and No.1.

22.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum

It was highly anticipated, but not unpredictable: Sinner was heavenly, the Demon exorcised

This was really no contest: Jannik Sinner showed Alex de Minaur just how big the gulf is between No.8 and No.1.

22.01.2025 8

The Age

Greg Baum

It was highly anticipated, but not unpredictable: Sinner was heavenly, the Demon exorcised

This was really no contest: Jannik Sinner showed Alex de Minaur just how big the gulf is between No.8 and No.1.

22.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Greg Baum

He didn’t just beat Alcaraz, he mastered him: Novak Djokovic stalls the march of time

Djokovic does it again – defying predictions, the years and an injury to outlast 21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, who is still missing only the Norman...

21.01.2025 6

WA Today

Greg Baum

He didn’t just beat Alcaraz, he mastered him: Novak Djokovic stalls the march of time

Djokovic does it again – defying predictions, the years and an injury to outlast 21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, who is still missing only the Norman...

21.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Baum