The first day of a new series is like a test tube, where all the ingredients are mixed to see how they react to one another and what they make, but hopefully to avoid an explosion.
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Melbourne Cup winner Saintly dead, says Anthony Cummings
Champion racehorse Saintly, winner of the 1996 Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate and a Bart Cummings favourite, has died at 24.
The Big Bash League manipulates us – and we love it
Six years in, I am still unsure whether the Big Bash League is a genius-level cricket innovation, a sleight-of-hand trick of marketing flimflam, the perfect wallpaper for summer evenings, a fluke of Cricket Australia riding its own coat-tails, a competition more important than life or death, a complete waste of time, or all of the above. I don’t know if my instinctive fondness for the BBL proves that I am a renaissance man of catholic tastes and broad toleration, or a pea brain. What I want to know is why, when I had to consult the internet to jog my memory of who won it last year, I will watch it compulsively night after night even after days of Test cricket.
Pink cricket ball in plain sight as first Test series begins, but origins of its leather are top secret
The origins of the leather in the pink cricket ball used for day-night Test matches is a closely-guarded secret, with even the location of the farm the leather comes from being a mystery.
Recently dyed red leather at Packer Leather
Packer Leather says the source of its pink leather is a secret, to protect the Kookaburra company
Packer Leather colours leather for cricket balls
Conversations: Gregory Smith
Hear Gregory Smith’s story of his journey from being homeless and living as a hermit in a forest, to becoming an academic with a PhD…
Curtis Powell death: Child Safety Minister says boy's case deemed 'low risk' before death
Brisbane boy Curtis Powell’s foster care case was deemed as ‘low-risk’ by the Department of Child Safety before his death in 2015, Minister Shannon Fentiman says.
Conversations: Alan Alda
Alan is well-known and much-loved for his performances in M.A.S.H. and The West Wing, as well as his roles in many Hollywood films, but he’s also famous for his love of science…