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Christian Ryan
Christian Ryan

The thing about speed guns

The thing about speed guns

Does knowing how fast someone is bowling add to our experience of watching?

28-Nov-2013•Christian Ryan
Being liked

Being liked

Thinking the Australian team unlikeable is a habit people slipped into. There comes a time for eyes to be readjusted

21-Nov-2013•Christian Ryan
Rhythm and the lost art of hanging on

Rhythm and the lost art of hanging on

T20 is bad for batting technique, but could it be good for batting mindsets?

14-Nov-2013•Christian Ryan
The Hangman’s Way

The Hangman’s Way

At six past midday on Wednesday, Alastair Cook got a ball that was neither wide nor full and he greeted it like a stork helping itself to water

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Caught (Dropped!) In The Memory

Caught (Dropped!) In The Memory

So ends another Ashes summer

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Fawlty Hours

Fawlty Hours

Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Pupwatch

Pupwatch

The world moves in apt and mysterious ways, and so it was that on Michael Clarke’s first afternoon as Australia’s captain in the field David Hasselhoff was sitting in the crowd

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Sweet Fifteen

Sweet Fifteen

He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
The Ballad of Nugget and Krystyna

The Ballad of Nugget and Krystyna

Speaking of a sick-in-the-gut feeling, that’s when it hit me, a creeping unease

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
That old greyhound squint

That old greyhound squint

When Ricky Ponting wakes up on Test match morning, he is not the type to help himself to muesli and a Swisse Men’s Ultivite pill only to spend the next half-hour wondering whether he should have gone for a couple of bananas instead

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Letting go

Letting go

The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Gone fishing

Gone fishing

“In a pond with no fish,” goes an old Russian saying, “a crab is a fish.” Twenty-first century Australian cricket throws up numerous variations on this

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
The (woman's) style is the man

The (woman's) style is the man

“Each profession begets its particular style of play,” wrote that master back-of-a-postcard essayist RC Robertson-Glasgow, in the days when cricketers had day jobs.

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Into the mystic

Into the mystic

Swing

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
The Smith experiment

The Smith experiment

One high-wired June afternoon in 1986, Kapil Dev clubbed a six into the grandstand to win a Test match at Lord’s and Mike Gatting was minutes later being steered into the tiny physiotherapist’s room

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
A time for sparrow’s feet

A time for sparrow’s feet

People say baggy green caps are never given away lightly

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Waltzing, not wilting

Waltzing, not wilting

In 1973 – a year when the Ashes were technically in England’s possession, but not for long – Mary Gates migrated to Australia with her husband and four children

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
The travails of Xavier Doherty

The travails of Xavier Doherty

The cap did not fit

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
The Lost Art of Intercepting

The Lost Art of Intercepting

Give me a time machine and a choice – one match, one moment, one ball – and I’d say take me to Old Trafford, mid-afternoon, on the 26th day of July in 1902

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
Tyson, Hadlee, Holding … Jimmy?

Tyson, Hadlee, Holding … Jimmy?

Jimmy Anderson’s second delivery to Michael Clarke today swung 11 centimetres, the mere width of a golf hole

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan
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