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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With Australia currently sitting at 189-2 (Khawaja 87, Smith 44) Captain Smith has kept niggling Crane, pushing towards a low-key hundred partnership that has left Australia in a confident position. All walks of life have made there way to the Sydney Cricket Ground, in the sold day two test from the Eastern end of the ground, right up through the While...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT The life of a park footy referee is not always easy, but for referee veteran Ken Oakes (54), the input from keen-eyed parents watching their children play makes his job a whole lot easier. “If they didn’t keep yelling “Get ‘em onside ref!” I’d honestly forget to do it! God’s people, the lot of them.” With 25 years of refereeing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Similar to a golfer channeling Happy Gilmour, a popular local park cricketer has dug deep this afternoon in a training game against a higher grade. Max Dengue was nearing the end of his spell against the North Betoota second-grade team this afternoon when he found himself feeling flat. Watching another ball on a good length get pushed back past him...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An anonymous crew member from Nine's Wide World Of Sports commentary team say the team is often forced at gunpoint to plug 'shitty, official memorabilia' during broadcasts. The same insider has also suggested that Ian Healy refused to do so in 2011 and was promptly shot dead in the commentary box then replaced by a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular local high school English teacher has had her understanding of cricket damaged this afternoon as her partner revealed plans to spend the day watching a game that won't end in a result and doesn't even count in the scheme of things. Lucy Caldwell, of Betoota Heights, spoke to The Advocate after a short...

Sitting in their 3-bedroom Queenslander in Betoota Springs last Saturday, Stephanie George (27) mindlessly asked her boyfriend, Jake Handley (28), who was winning the cricket – a costly mistake that she will definitely think twice about making in the future. “Who’s winning?” Jake parroted. “Steph, it’s a 6-day test – we’re only on day 3!” Stephanie, who thought the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet Reporter | Contact There are certain types of people in this world. Types who resent making chat with colleagues. Types who go out of there way to make friends, and ask their fellow man about their lives, their family and their hobbies. And of course, the type of people who do whatever it takes to segue into talking...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "It's so cool how there's still Test cricket to watch after knockoff," he said. Peter Gurner's drinking companions braced themselves. "It's just like a day-nighter, it's mad." For the fourth time this Test, the 34-year-old has told his friends that a match in Perth is great for fellow East Coastmen such as him because of the time...

KENT REGINALD | Entertainment | CONTACT Following the success of its popular reality show ‘Married At First Sight’, Channel 9 have today announced a new TV show that will allow 11 lucky contestants the chance to play for the English Cricket Team, despite never having seen each other (or a cricket game) before. The announcement, in conjunction with the ECB, comes as England collapsed against...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia collectively reached for the mute button today as the announcement came out that Michael Clarke would be stepping into the commentary box shortly. The statement came from Mark Nicholas during the the final day of the 2nd Ashes Test in Adelaide, and was greeted by millions of groans across the nation. OzTAM, the official television audience measurement body in...