Facts: It was Australia's day in final, they won, they are World Cup winners.
More facts: India comprehensively won 10 games, they lost 11th, they had the best bowlers and batters. They were the tournament's best team.
Both facts, on paper and on field. Relax Australia.
No photo of him, no mention of him having played rugby league, and only referred to as a killer. A front page only recognising the helpless victims is how it should be done
The teams stay in five-star hotels, sometimes they even have a restaurant only for them within the hotel.
England treating touring India like it’s the 1970s for absolutely no reason
Interim North coach Brett Ratten has fired back at Nick Riewoldt's criticism of St Kilda during his time with the Saints:
"The only time he (Riewoldt) came was for free physio, that's the only time he was at the club, so I don't know where he saw those standards."
@AAPSport
The AFL has done it again. AFLW teams have been given exemptions to fly in and out of Perth this weekend while the WA border remains closed to the rest of the country
So is Docklands in Mildura or a few kms across the city? Imagine refusing to go and watch your team play (let alone during a golden era) because it’s not in your favourite stadium
#AFLTigersGiants
Good idea from Jimmy Bartel on 3AW - no Saturday arvo
#AFL
games for the first 6 weeks next year to encourage more people to get along to community footy.
Local clubs have done it seriously tough in the last 2 years
Ash Barty when asked about Jim Courier saying "happy Australia Day" to her.
"I'm an extremely proud indigenous woman. It's not for me to decide what day Australia Day is on. Like I said, I'm staying true to my values. I am extremely proud of my heritage."
#AusOpen
Michael Voss on the Luke Parker taunting incident: "I reckon it's one of the most over-talked things I've seen and it has no relevance"
And I reckon that's case closed
Roger Federer considered pulling out of tonight's semi-final after talking with his team. In his press conference, he also said he's confident of being back for next year's
#AusOpen
AFL lawyer: Shouldn't you have been more careful knowing the Gabba area is harder?
Cam Rayner: In a split second during a game of footy I’m not thinking about what the surface is like
Victoria was averaging 230 cases on this day last year and we were out of lockdown by November. This is actually as alarmist as you can get and completely irresponsible from a former premier
Congratulations Victoria, 28 consecutive days of 0 new cases reported 💕
Yesterday there were 0 lives lost and 9,828 test results received. There are 0 active cases.
More detail:
#StaySafeStayOpen
#COVID19VicData
Pies fans were laughing at the Crows last week for arguing they never pay running too far.
Tonight the shoe is on the other foot with Collingwood on the end of a technically correct, but rarely applied rule
From one of the dullest MCG Tests in 2017 to six-straight years of results, culminating in one of the most enthralling Boxing Day battles we’ve seen.
Amazing turnaround from Matt Page and his team at the ‘G
Slovenia's Dalila Jakupovic after being forced to retire in the smoky conditions at
#AustralianOpen
qualifying.
"I was really scared that I would collapse. That’s why I went onto the floor because I couldn’t walk anymore."I don’t have asthma." Story on
@AAPNewswire
soon
Very large crowd on Bourke St. I never estimate numbers because no one would ever agree with me anyway, but you can see here it appears to go from Elizabeth St back to beyond Exhibition St (trees obscure the view past that).
Australia’s results since this article - undefeated, became only 2nd team to win a Test in India in the last decade, WTC champions, and claimed victory in one of the greatest Tests ever played
So many ‘give me your boots signs’ at a grand final…this craze has gone too far. I’m sure the players would really want to hang on to gear from such a memorable day
In the AFL you get a Norm Smith medal. The Clive Churchill in the NRL. In the BBL you get a literal KFC medal around your neck for dominating a decider
POLL | Should the Brisbane Lions pump-up songs have been part of the fan vote for the quarter time song at the Grand Final?
Dwayne doesn’t think it was fair.
That's an excellent Bazball loss from England: got in front in the game, crumbled under pressure (both are Bazball mantras) and followed through with not being able to bowl the lower order out twice
Totally fair enough if it’s for sports science/performance purposes obviously. But this makes it sound like it’s more they’re scared of the Indian food making them ill (which it won’t)
A $19 Uber from Adelaide CBD to the airport this morning compared to a $113 one on Thursday for roughly the same distance from Melbourne’s north to Tullamarine 🤷♂️
Victorian Football League Grand Final will be played in Queensland if Brisbane Lions beat Werribee (Werribee favourites) AND Gold Coast beat Box Hill (Suns favourites). That is sensible from a crowd etc perspective but the thought takes a while to compute.
"We [will] get up and wrap our arms around him & say, 'you are one of us, we love you, you are brave, you are braver than anyone in this league’.” The interview with
@BobMurphy02
for tonight’s The Silence
#4Corners
is so moving.
@freodockers
lucky to have this top class human.
Alexander Zverev given a suspended(!) eight-week ban for THAT outburst in Acapulco. Completely embarrassing reaction from the ATP to one of the worst incidents seen on the tennis court in years
Adam Ramanauskas, Ben Rutten's manager and Essendon premiership player, on RSN this morning:
"He was reading on Monday he was sacked, and there was nobody who was telling him otherwise."
Pakistan might go down 3-0 in this series but they’ve shown more than enough to be a very good Test team down the track. Fingers crossed they get enough opportunities to grow and play Test cricket
Dyson Heppell on critics of the smiling Bombers: “Genuine carry-on, are you going to tell your kids or wife to stop smiling because they have a bad day at work? I’m always an optimistic, positive type of bloke and I’m always going to come in as my authentic self.”