Tours to India may not be the voyages into the unknown that they once were, but it still helps to bring along a pallet or two of baked beans just in case.
The fact the Australian cricket team hit a rich vein of form the moment Shane Warne started picking fights with its management is probably a mere coincidence, but no less hilarious for that.
The recent IPL auction was utterly ridiculous and nothing exemplified that more than the conduct of the Pune Warriors, who threw money at rubbish they didn’t even need. Was there method in their madness? No, probably not.
Our latest Steve Smith Report takes us on tour to the exotic climes of far-off India, where the dangers of Delhi-belly are nothing compared to the damage a late night splurge on KFC can cause.
And that’s why we love it so very, very, much. Put your morals and prejudices aside and prepare to wallow in the glorious filth that is the 2013 IPL Auction.
In the latest Times best-seller, a young man struggles to explain his belief, in the face of all available scientific evidence, that New Zealand will beat England in their upcoming Test series.
Action! Drama! Suspense! None of these and less will be on show in the latest eagerly anticipated ODI series to grace our televisions.
In crusading terms, the current Channel Nine effort is right up there with the Fourth Crusade in terms of planning and foresight. They may ultimately succeed, but in the end everyone will lose.
Australia have been in the position of being ‘shit, but getting less shit’ for quite some time now. We assess what’s holding them back from progressing to ‘only a little bit shit’ in the near future.
Australia vs. Sri Lanka was such an exciting series that we couldn’t risk reviewing it, in case somebody got too hot under the collar and fainted. Hence we just put two men in a room with some gin and made them talk vaguely about it instead.