Mike Atherton
6 results

TV View: Australian cricket in need of Granny Furlong’s divine intervention
- Sport
- March 26, 2018, 06:00
After the weekend that was in it you couldn’t but conclude that Australian cricket and Oxford rowing could do with some help from Granny Furlong, both(...)

Overblown head-butt incident could derail fragile England
- Other Sports
- November 27, 2017, 13:28
Cameron Bancroft, his anonymity beyond Perth and Bristol now entirely blown, delivered a scorching straight drive and the Test match was won by Austra(...)

TV View: Goodnight Irene for Bumble as Brathwaite plays blinder with bat
- Other Sports
- April 3, 2016, 21:53
“It’s a backside nipper, is this,” said David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd, leaving the viewers wondering if that was a cricketing stroke they’d never heard of, or (...)

‘Analysis paralysis’ and the cult of turning coaches into Caesars
- Sport
- March 16, 2015, 01:00
The phrase “analysis paralysis” is hardly new and its use hardly neutral. But the debate about whether sport should be parsed through as many analytic(...)

Nothing tough about tattoo-branded attention seekers
- Sport
- July 29, 2013, 05:00
Tattoos! Why? An expression of individuality? Hardly. It’s impossible to go anywhere without being ubiquitously treated to acres of flabby pseudo-Kanj(...)

Australia are a laughing stock, says Michael Clarke
- Other Sports
- July 22, 2013, 15:21
Michael Clarke has admitted his Australia team have become a laughing stock and cannot have any complaints about it after an “unacceptable” batting pe(...)