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Robert CraddockSenior sports journalist

Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock is regarded as one of Queensland’s best authorities on sport. ‘Crash’ is a senior sport journalist and columnist for The Courier-Mail and CODE Sports, and can be seen on Fox Cricket.

Robert Craddock

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Teams

All smiles from Australian cricketers (l-r) Shane Warne, Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor, after wrapping up The Ashes series with a win in the 5th Test in Perth, 07 Feb 1995. (NAP EX NPS)

How Super League sparked a cricket pay war

As rugby league prepares to tighten the belt in order to get through the coronavirus pandemic, ROBERT CRADDOCK looks back at the far-reaching impact of the salary explosion of Super League.

Maroons

Queensland’s finest hour: Boustead recalls Maroons first

Forty years after Queensland won the first State of Origin match at Lang Park, the man who scored the first Maroons try still cherishes the memories.

Cricket

Lawrence Rowe, captain of the rebel West Indies XI plays a one-day international against South Africa in Durban, during the team's tour of South Africa, February 1983. (Photo by Adrian Murrell/Getty Images)

Most hated cricket team of all time still suffering

Australia’s Cape Town ball tamperers may have suffered for their sins but the anger they faced was nothing compared to the abuse showered upon a group of West Indians lured into a white man’s world.

Cricket

Mitch Swepson of Queensland is congratulated by teammates after dismissing Matthew Kelly of Western Australia during day 4 of the Marsh Sheffield Shield cricket match between the Western Warriors and the Queensland Bulls at the WACA Ground in Perth, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

Bulls resistance heaps more pressure on CA

Queensland Cricket has baulked at signing up for at least $8 million in pay cuts requested by Cricket Australia, but changes are happening behind the scenes, including the return of a former Shield-winning coach.

NRL

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 24: ARLC Chairman Peter Vlandys speaks to the media during an NRL press conference at NRL headquarters on March 24, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

Why Queensland must stand up to the NRL

The Queensland government needs to hold its ground against the flip-flopping NRL in the battle over players refusing to be vaccinated writes ROBERT CRADDOCK.

NRL

Mark Coyne (3) hugs Ben Ikin after game, New South Wales (NSW) v Queensland, State of Origin 1995. Sport / Rugby League / Head / With Others

Ikin: Why Rugby league is the greatest soap opera

The NRL 360 co-host is ready for football to get back underway and reveals the day he made his partner in crime Paul Kent finally crack.

Rugby

Would you want one of sport’s hot seats?

Australian sport will emerge from the coronavirus trainwreck but when the dust settles there’s a select group of individuals you just would not want to be, writes Robert Craddock.

Cricket

Why grassroots cricket must be protected: Jones

Dean Jones says never has grassroots cricket been as important as it is now and puts forward his case as to why it is crucial that it survives the harsh financial cull facing Australian cricket.

Opinion

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 20: Latrell Mitchell of the Rabbitohs reacts during the round 2 NRL match between the Brisbane Broncos and the South Sydney Rabbitohs at Suncorp Stadium on March 20, 2020 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Jono Searle/Getty Images)

Coronavirus trio are the best and worst thing for NRL

By their mistakes, Nathan Cleary, Josh Addo-Carr and Latrell Mitchell have shown the rest of rugby league the way forward – now the game needs 24 perfect days in a row before it can return.

Cricket

Bulls at gate: spikes and whites on the dance floor

It was the curse that wouldn’t go away, so when Queensland finally broke through for its drought-breaking Sheffield Shield final win, it was always going to be a celebration for the ages.

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