Daniel Brettig 🏏

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Chief cricket writer, The Age. Whitewash to Whitewash, Bucking the Trend, Bradman and Packer. TGSTW bit.ly/TGSTW1993

Western Victoria theage.com.au/by/daniel-bret… Joined January 2009

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Daniel Brettig 🏏 @danbrettig Jan 2

Exclusive: A candid Usman Khawaja on his journey. "It’s not the runs or the wins or anything else, it’s the brown immigrant boy who came from Pakistan in 1991 and got to play for Australia’s greatest sporting team. That’s the greatest achievement.” #Ashes theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…

www.theage.com.au Khawaja was dropped eight times. He explains how he kept coming back In a wide-ranging interview, Usman Khawaja also revealed coach Andrew McDonald wanted him to keep going until the 2027 tour of India.

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“It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us.” - Usman Khawaja on sandpapergate theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…

www.theage.com.au ‘It was all of us’: Khawaja blows the whistle on more sandpaper use in South Africa in 2018 Usman Khawaja’s memoir is about to be released, and contains a remarkable revelation about the Australian team’s use of sandpaper earlier in the now infamous 2018 Test tour of South Africa.

Daniel Brettig 🏏 @danbrettig Nov 2

Glenn Maxwell was a one-off. Australia don't get near to winning the 2023 World Cup without him. We will always wonder what more he could have produced in Tests

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www.theage.com.au The full Maxi: Cup hero opens up on Test dream, staying loyal, and that golf cart incident In an exclusive interview, Glenn Maxwell explains why he’s spurned further T20 riches and is desperate to wear the baggy green again. He also opens up on his freak golf course accident.

Daniel Brettig 🏏 @danbrettig Oct 31

Something about the manner of defeat will cause anger. Players persisted with for too long, mistakes repeated, a lack of backbone at moments of great import. Australia weren't just beaten in the final two Tests. When it mattered, they were dismembered

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www.theage.com.au Dismembered at Newlands, Cummins’ men no longer deserve to be called the world’s best Australia were not just defeated in the final two Tests in South Africa. When it mattered, they were dismembered.

Daniel Brettig 🏏 @danbrettig Oct 30

So it is that a most bewitching series will go into its final day with the result still very much in doubt. Having started, bizarrely, on a Tuesday, that also means the final chapter should be written in front of a bountiful Saturday crowd
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www.theage.com.au Proteas ensure this bewitching series will get Cape Town climax it deserves The unpredictable series will go into its final day with the result still very much in doubt. Recent history suggests the target of 288 is within the sights of Pat Cummins’ men.