With Australia on the verge of a home Ashes loss in 2010-11, former Test cricketers Ian Healy and Simon O’Donnell began the call for the inclusion of New South Wales quick bowler Mark Cameron. Ultimately, though, it was a returning Mitchell Johnson who got the national call-up, and he delivered with match-winning figures of … More Six Ball Over: Mark Cameron
With the JLT Cup reaching its crux — a tournament trying to reach the masses with free live streams online, hosted at close-to-the-community grade grounds, and starting even before the winter codes came to a conclusion — we at Mind the Windows have decided to hark back to the glory days of domestic Australian one-day … More Six Ball Over: Darren Wates
It’s spring in Australia. The AFL and NRL Grand Finals have passed, Bathurst is coming up. The men in their baggy greens are on a low-key overseas tour (or perhaps one that is cancelled). But around Sydney, a new sporting competition is starting up. There’s no glitz and glamour as the best domestic cricketers from … More Understanding the Matador
When, at the end of the 2003/04 Australian domestic season, Jo Angel decided to retire, a giant presence was leaving the Western Australia ranks. A giant man too, at six-foot six-inches tall. For more than a decade, Angel had been the man WA turned to match after match. The final statistics said it all: 485 … More Jo Angel; ‘It’s a pretty simple game overcomplicated by people’
Originally posted on DV Mace’s Smorgasbord of Sport, 13-Oct-2014. The latest victim of a Six Ball Over is the Netherland’s vice-captain and former Western Australia cricketer Michael Swart. He’s played played 12 One Day Internationals, and in his 18 international T20s for the Dutchmen he averages just under 28 with the bat (at a 120 … More Six Ball Over: Michael Swart
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