Christian Ryan's Blog, page 5

The daredevil dead art

Do slow left-armers lack something other spinners have?

What I heard about the cricket

The season's begun in Australia, and there's plenty of talk about the game

Fearless Stan

McCabe at the crease was the personification of batting with haste yet no hate. On his birth centenary, we remember the batting genius

Consider Howard's past

Could a man with such a poor record in matters of Aboriginal rights have made a good president of the ICC?

Cry, the unloved cricketer

The general public antipathy for Shane Watson may have more than a little to do with the ancient, hazy balance between the team and the individual

A touch of Gower

A WACA innings where the batsman should, by rights, have gone on to make 400

Worrell's West Indians in Australia

In the drabbest hours of the game came a contest that breathed life back into it and gave birth to one of cricket's great rivalries

Bradman

Cricket's greatest batsman was a colossal contradiction: a young visionary and an old reactionary; and he triggered the sport's first two great cataclysms

Cricket on the radio

Commentary began in the early 1920s, but it really got going with "synthetic reports" by four men in a Sydney studio during the 1938 Ashes

Abbamania

Twelve years ago, Abdul Qadir, still good enough to turn out for Pakistan, spent a summer playing club cricket in Melbourne. The few who saw him remember it like it was yesterday