The one in four fans Smith must win back
Steve Smith may not see it this way, but this is a much better result than landing the captaincy. Working the deputy role, this has the potential to be a very satisfying stage of his career.
Cricket
New skipper passes test of character
Pat Cummins asks Australians to be kinder to each other in his first public appearance as the nation’s 47th Test cricket captain.
Cummins will hold himself to high standards
Pat Cummins is as close to poster boy as the game would ever find and one it needs most in its miserable hour.
Hopefully this job doesn’t break Cummins
It’s no fault of Pat Cummins that the succession of a new Australian Test captain was not the celebration it might have been.
A wretched business with no winners
Tim Paine’s Test career is in tatters but that is the least of his concerns as he takes an indefinite break from the game.
How many change agents to change a light bulb?
Here again is confirmation of the truism that it is only ever athletes who are penalised for sporting maladministration.
Cummins wanted Smith by his side
Pat Cummins insisted Steve Smith be his vice-captain as he contemplates being Australia’s first fast-bowling Test skipper in more than half a century.
Tim Paine out of Ashes, Test career looks over
Tim Paine has withdrawn from all forms of the game ‘for the foreseeable future’ with concerns for his wellbeing.
Old enemy warns against Cummins call
He insists it’s nothing against his captaincy credentials, but a former Ashes foe reckons Pat Cummins should be left to do what he does best rather than lead the Aussies into an Ashes battle.
The call which will define Australian cricket’s new era
Australia can’t afford to get the decisions to kickstart its next era wrong.
Prepare for an activist captain if Cummins gets the nod
A decision on the next Test captain is imminent. Strap in for the game to become active on issues including climate change.
Pros and cons of Cummins-Smith leadership pact
Nathan Lyons has no doubt Australia can drastically improve its communication lines through the leadership of Pat Cummins and Steve Smith. But Michael Clarke isn’t so sure.
Shocked teammates want Paine in Ashes
Still in quarantine in Queensland before the first Ashes Test Australian opener Marcus Harris has thrown his support behind former captain Tim Paine.
Paine’s resignation casts damning reflection
We fret over mental health concerns in the theoretical but in the actual, we take a voyeuristic delight in watching the likes of Tim Paine crumble.
The real victim of CA’s dodgy decision making
Why are we all consenting to the victim blaming narrative being run as part of an elite cover-up asks Jessica Halloran.
Warne, Paine skewered in Barmy Army ‘sexting’ song
Tim Paine’s sexting nightmare isn’t going away anytime soon, with the Barmy Army set to hammer the former skipper with a new set of songs during the Ashes. FULL LYRICS INSIDE.
In retrospect, cricket board hangs Paine out to dry
Let me politely suggest that the progressive corporate men running Cricket Australia have no idea about the pulse of the nation on this one.
Tasmania slams ‘appalling’ treatment of Tim Paine
The Cricket Tasmania board has likened the treatment of Tim Paine over his sexting scandal to Bill Lawry being thrown under the bus 50 years ago.
Uncivil War: Blistering attack shows Aussie cricket at war
Cricket Australia are understood to be seething following Cricket Tasmania’s extraordinary attack on their ‘appalling’ treatment of Tim Paine.
How has Tim Paine become the victim?
Somehow fallen Australian captain Tim Paine has become the victim of the sexting scandal and it is clear ‘elite honesty’ is dead.
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