JOHN GASCOIGNE

November 24, 2020 by John Gascoigne It’s an odd game to begin with. Men hurling a leather orb, trying to dislodge two grooved sticks atop...

July 20, 2018 by John Gascoigne Umpire John Gascoigne reports on Melbourne’s cricket scene as players squish their way towards finals. So...

Balwyn twins Sunny and Nali Plant, 14, began playing team cricket just three years ago after their initial jousts in the backyard. Sunny...

Between summers, a man's still gotta earn a buck ... This job was no walk in the park. It’s 20 years since the Australian Football League...

Teenagers showing early promise deliver old lessons. Never work with children or animals, WC Fields famously cautioned. Having put my...

For cricket's fanatics, no conditions are too hostile. As welcome rain tumbled down around Melbourne on Saturday afternoon, motorists may...

So much of cricket umpiring, including Melbourne’s winter competition — now two matches shy of the 2018 finals — involves much more than...

Occasionally, even cricket’s lower grades throw up something remarkable. It can be a skillset maintained over a five-hour ‘day’, worthy...

Tis the season for sneakers and hoodies … Melbourne’s mid-year cricket competition is under way in slushy parks under leaden skies. Years...

Cricket never fails to intrigue with its curious means of batsmen’s dismissal and the litany of fine and flawed actions that will precede...