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Ben Pobjie is a writer and comedian whose promising rugby career was tragically cut short the day he stopped playing rugby and had a pizza instead. The most he has ever cried was the day Balmain lost the 1989 grand final. Today he enjoys the frolics of Wallabies, Swans, baggy greens, and Storm.
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There was plenty of scoffing from the Australian side when Indian captain Rohit Sharma bemoaned an apparent pattern of decisions going against his side,…
Seeing the Wallabies on the weekend inspired many emotions. Pride, joy, euphoria, relief, a certain level of sexual arousal, hunger, etc. But most of…
Well, you've had the first ten, now here's the second half of a list that had to be split in two due to my…
There is nothing more integral to the experience of being a cricket tragic than the making of lists. Lists of best Tests, best players,…
The Grand Final. The Decider. The Big Dance. The Pointy End. Crunch Time. The Acid Test. Old Faithful. Swing Time. Sunday Bloody Sunday. WS…
Well, they did it. I wrote last week that the Wallabies needed, at all costs, to avoid beating the All Blacks in game one…
And so, September is upon us, and the age-old question rears its head: how do we beat the All Blacks? It's a tricky question,…
It's always difficult to judge a coach from the outside. We have so little knowledge of what goes on behind closed doors, of what…
Well, that's all right then. The Wallabies' victory over Argentina doesn't mean that all the problems of Australian rugby are solved - the continuing…
The weekly meetings of the Guild of Loudmouth Australian Sporting Pundits (GLASP) are usually fairly robust affairs. After the apologies for those missing due…
It has been rightly said that we learn more from defeat than from victory. This is why Australian rugby players are the best educated…
Enough is enough. How much longer must we endure the disastrous quagmire in which Australian rugby finds itself after the weekend's humiliating loss, a…
As an idiot once said, rugby is a very simple game. Of course it's not. It's a fiendishly complicated game, labyrinthine in its rules,…
Olympic Fever does strange things to a person. Every four years I feel myself taken by a strange and irresistible spirit, that causes me…
It would be easy for Joe Schmidt and his mysterious cabal of sinister "assistants" to panic right now. After all, the Wallabies have just…
I heard it again this week: that phrase so seductive, so flirtatious; those words that seem to promise so much and yet keep their…
On Saturday, Australia played Wales at rugby, and New Zealand played England at rugby. Australia beat Wales. New Zealand beat England. Are you following…
Australia and Wales have had a fraught relationship ever since the British government decided that South Wales was looking a bit stale and sent…
Well, here we are. Super Rugby is over for another year, won by someone or other presumably, and the first Wallabies squad has been…
"The purpose of a system is what it does," Stafford Beer famously said. In other words, if you've got a system that persistently fails…
No that’s the old cricketers of the year. Pretty sure the test XI is theoretically global.
'Bazbulls--t': Cricket bible slammed as Test team of the year features zero Aussies, FIVE Poms
Only a runout if he was attempting a run.
Quiet achiever Carey starting to enter rare air of Australia’s all-time wicketkeeping greats
The air is thinner in the northern hemisphere because it’s on top of the globe.
McCullum unveils blueprint for Bazball pace aces to be firing for Ashes in bid to ‘blow Aussies away’
McCullum is the sharpest cricket mind I’ve ever encountered. Trying to take wickets! Incredible outside the box thinking.
McCullum unveils blueprint for Bazball pace aces to be firing for Ashes in bid to ‘blow Aussies away’
Sangakkara didn’t keep for enough of his career to be considered a great test keeper.
Quiet achiever Carey starting to enter rare air of Australia’s all-time wicketkeeping greats
I like how you put it in quotes as if it wasn’t a real stumping, when of course it was.
Quiet achiever Carey starting to enter rare air of Australia’s all-time wicketkeeping greats
I think we should simply have them play against each other to see who’s better.
Sorry, ESPN: It's absurd to suggest LeBron James is greater than Novak Djokovic
I think a human mullet would be more suited to swimming than rugby.
'I'm not going to waltz in': Capped by Eddie with England, meet the 'human mullet' who can make Wallabies history
If Reuben went on an all-hamburger diet for a year
'I'm not going to waltz in': Capped by Eddie with England, meet the 'human mullet' who can make Wallabies history
Mainly because in the test team we have Lyon and the in the ODI and T20 teams we have Zampa, and more than one specialist spinner is only rarely required.
Leg spin will never die but Zampa’s right to air concerns over flick of the wrist magicians vanishing
So what you’re saying is, Nick is honestly stating his opinion, while Kane is just doing it for money.
'Didn't even know who you were': Nick Kyrgios' savage return of serve after Kane Cornes' sledge
People who demand that players pull the pin on their own careers should reflect on what they would do if they were given their ultimate dream job, the thing they’d wanted more than anything else on earth since they were little kids. I think there’s a fair chance that most people, given that chance, would want to keep doing it as long as possible.
Numbers don’t lie when it comes to the majority of Aussie Test team being in fading final phase of their career
And of course the devilishly clever “Warney”.
Leg spin will never die but Zampa’s right to air concerns over flick of the wrist magicians vanishing
Gotta feel that if Zampa had been hellbent on playing test cricket he’d have played more red ball cricket over the last ten years. I’m sure he’s disappointed but he never made it his priority.
Leg spin will never die but Zampa’s right to air concerns over flick of the wrist magicians vanishing
“This is a guy who sits there and criticises everyone else”
God yeah, don’t you hate guys who do that, Kane?
'Didn't even know who you were': Nick Kyrgios' savage return of serve after Kane Cornes' sledge
I only wish the commentators on the BBL liked cricket. The game going on in front of them seems to always be an unwelcome distraction from their conversations.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
So you were right.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
He’s won seven tournaments.
'Can't see myself playing here again': Kyrgios drops brutal bombshell after painful first round exit
Very odd indeed.
Selectors slam door shut on four Test careers after finally looking to the future with new-look tour squad
Hadlee in 85/86 was certainly not bowling against a strong lineup.
OK, Bumrah: Indian star stupendous against Aussies but not the greatest of all time by a visiting bowler
Yes that was an odd mistake re Archer – he took eight wickets on debut for Queensland. I don’t think he can have meant just being selected on tour, as he specified “top six batsman”. Maybe mixed up Ron with Ken Archer?
Selectors slam door shut on four Test careers after finally looking to the future with new-look tour squad
Don’t you know that the purpose of the test team isn’t to win, but to prepare players for the future?
Selectors slam door shut on four Test careers after finally looking to the future with new-look tour squad
I must say I don’t like the idea of giving someone the test captaincy as a “warm-up”. Give the captaincy to the man you think will be the best captain. It’s not an internship.
Selectors slam door shut on four Test careers after finally looking to the future with new-look tour squad
Hansen says he’s going to channel his energy into representing his country. But I thought he played for Ireland?
Mack Hansen banned and his ref target quits after f-bomb blow-up
Flower was indeed a colossal cricketer
Quiet achiever Carey starting to enter rare air of Australia’s all-time wicketkeeping greats