Cricket Victoria bosses met Demetriou on the eve of the AFL season, launched in Adelaide and Perth last weekend, with the MCG kept contractually vacant in case Victoria reached the shield final. They also visited Canberra last week in a bid for federal …
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Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed former AFL general manager of football Adrian Anderson to review its integrity management. CA boss James Sutherland said the decision to conduct the review was made before the recent Australian Crime Commission …
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Why is this litany of footy fiasco cricket's problem? Well, look at the back page, listen to SEN and check the sentences flowing along the screen bottom on Fox Sports. AFL controversy might hurt footy – I'm sure Andrew Demetriou would rather th…
AFL chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan said the league's inability to schedule games at the MCG, SCG or the Gabba until the final week of March due to cricket commitments "was obviously problematic for us" and had a role in compromi…
The Australian cricket team, the Wallabies and a leading AFL club have held talks with Olympic sailing team boss Peter Conde in a bid to try and learn the secrets of his unprecedented success. Australia's sailors were easily the nation's most ….
Cricket Australia have been forced to start their domestic season in the middle of the NRL and AFL finals in a bid to have the national team ready for the summer's marquee Test series against South Africa. With the national team due to start their …
For like Alex Keath, who has lately been cricket's poster boy in the matter of the teenager's football-versus-cricket dilemma, Wade also contemplated an AFL career. The little guy in its battle with footy, cricket has lately scored a couple of …
EXCLUSIVE: CRICKET and AFL officials could join forces in an effort to revive the dream of creating a boutique sporting stadium in Ballarat. A year after the Baillieu Government abandoned previous Brumby government plans to create a $30 million venue ….
To expect the fans to follow artificially created franchises (not teams) and engender the sort of tribal passion that characterises AFL and Rugby League is a serious error of judgement © Getty Images Okay, I’m going to go out on a limb and state m…
IN THE same week that rugby league prepares to hand over power to an independent commission, the Cricket Australia board will be left with little alternative but to sack itself. David Crawford, who re-designed the AFL hierarchy in 1992, will present a …