Paul Dennett
@pauldennett.bsky.social
Cricket writer and broadcaster
Was Warne better than Bradman in the Ashes? Of course not yet two British papers have just said so.
For my rebuttal: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
#theashes #shanewarne #cricket
For my rebuttal: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
#theashes #shanewarne #cricket
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Was Warne better than Bradman in the Ashes? Of course not yet two British papers have just said so.
For my rebuttal: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
#theashes #shanewarne #cricket
For my rebuttal: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
#theashes #shanewarne #cricket
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1 Tim David is being wasted
2 Why is Renshaw a Test chance?
3 The women’s World Cup: an opportunity missed
4 Why is CA broke?
5 Abishek Sharma
6 When Bradman’s brother outshone him!
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#AUSvIND
1 Tim David is being wasted
2 Why is Renshaw a Test chance?
3 The women’s World Cup: an opportunity missed
4 Why is CA broke?
5 Abishek Sharma
6 When Bradman’s brother outshone him!
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#AUSvIND
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1 Tim David is being wasted
2 Why is Renshaw a Test chance?
3 The women’s World Cup: an opportunity missed
4 Why is CA broke?
5 Abishek Sharma
6 When Bradman’s brother outshone him!
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#AUSvIND
1 Tim David is being wasted
2 Why is Renshaw a Test chance?
3 The women’s World Cup: an opportunity missed
4 Why is CA broke?
5 Abishek Sharma
6 When Bradman’s brother outshone him!
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#AUSvIND
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1 The ODI series - who was watching?
2 My white-ball wish
3 Connolly, Short & Owen
4 Good crowds; should have been better
5 Greg Chappell’s strange article
6 Alana King
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#indvsaus #ausvind
1 The ODI series - who was watching?
2 My white-ball wish
3 Connolly, Short & Owen
4 Good crowds; should have been better
5 Greg Chappell’s strange article
6 Alana King
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#indvsaus #ausvind
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1 The ODI series - who was watching?
2 My white-ball wish
3 Connolly, Short & Owen
4 Good crowds; should have been better
5 Greg Chappell’s strange article
6 Alana King
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#indvsaus #ausvind
1 The ODI series - who was watching?
2 My white-ball wish
3 Connolly, Short & Owen
4 Good crowds; should have been better
5 Greg Chappell’s strange article
6 Alana King
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#indvsaus #ausvind
My combined Ashes 11. Rather than player v player as the BBC required, I’ve just chosen my best team. #theashes #australiacricket #englandcricket
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My combined Ashes 11. Rather than player v player as the BBC required, I’ve just chosen my best team. #theashes #australiacricket #englandcricket
My latest newsletter, with guest co-author, Don Bradman.
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Aus v Ind begins!
2. Is Stuart Broad right?
3. Huge ticket sales
4. Fergus O’Neill
5. Eng lost the 1st Test, won the Ashes
6. My best Aussie side, by Don Bradman
#ausvind #indvsaus #theashes
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Aus v Ind begins!
2. Is Stuart Broad right?
3. Huge ticket sales
4. Fergus O’Neill
5. Eng lost the 1st Test, won the Ashes
6. My best Aussie side, by Don Bradman
#ausvind #indvsaus #theashes
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My latest newsletter, with guest co-author, Don Bradman.
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Aus v Ind begins!
2. Is Stuart Broad right?
3. Huge ticket sales
4. Fergus O’Neill
5. Eng lost the 1st Test, won the Ashes
6. My best Aussie side, by Don Bradman
#ausvind #indvsaus #theashes
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Aus v Ind begins!
2. Is Stuart Broad right?
3. Huge ticket sales
4. Fergus O’Neill
5. Eng lost the 1st Test, won the Ashes
6. My best Aussie side, by Don Bradman
#ausvind #indvsaus #theashes
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Pick/drop Khawaja?
2. Two English batters
3. Two English bowlers
4. Ashwin to the BBL
5. Out or not out: be the 3rd ump from 50 years ago!
6. Richie Benaud on channel 7
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#theashes #bbl
1. Pick/drop Khawaja?
2. Two English batters
3. Two English bowlers
4. Ashwin to the BBL
5. Out or not out: be the 3rd ump from 50 years ago!
6. Richie Benaud on channel 7
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#theashes #bbl
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
My latest newsletter: pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
1. Pick/drop Khawaja?
2. Two English batters
3. Two English bowlers
4. Ashwin to the BBL
5. Out or not out: be the 3rd ump from 50 years ago!
6. Richie Benaud on channel 7
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#theashes #bbl
1. Pick/drop Khawaja?
2. Two English batters
3. Two English bowlers
4. Ashwin to the BBL
5. Out or not out: be the 3rd ump from 50 years ago!
6. Richie Benaud on channel 7
Please read and subscribe; it’s free!
#theashes #bbl
Where have I seen this before? Tim Robinson scoring a century against Australia! #nzvsaus #theashes #englandcricket #newzealandcricket
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Where have I seen this before? Tim Robinson scoring a century against Australia! #nzvsaus #theashes #englandcricket #newzealandcricket
My latest newsletter:
1. Ashes tickets selling fast
2. Australia’s fast bowling future
3. Labuschagne’s travails
4. Bring the urn to Oz!
5. BBC: only 2 hours Ashes from Oz
6. Vialli and cricket
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#theashes
1. Ashes tickets selling fast
2. Australia’s fast bowling future
3. Labuschagne’s travails
4. Bring the urn to Oz!
5. BBC: only 2 hours Ashes from Oz
6. Vialli and cricket
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#theashes
September 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My latest newsletter:
1. Ashes tickets selling fast
2. Australia’s fast bowling future
3. Labuschagne’s travails
4. Bring the urn to Oz!
5. BBC: only 2 hours Ashes from Oz
6. Vialli and cricket
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#theashes
1. Ashes tickets selling fast
2. Australia’s fast bowling future
3. Labuschagne’s travails
4. Bring the urn to Oz!
5. BBC: only 2 hours Ashes from Oz
6. Vialli and cricket
pauldennett.substack.com/p/super-over...
Please read and subscribe. It’s free!
#theashes
Golden silence!
When Bradman got his last innings duck, the radio commentator
paused . . .
paused . . .
paused . . .
It was brilliant but today he’d be fired!
(Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for alerting me to this a couple of years ago!)
#theashes
When Bradman got his last innings duck, the radio commentator
paused . . .
paused . . .
paused . . .
It was brilliant but today he’d be fired!
(Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for alerting me to this a couple of years ago!)
#theashes
August 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Golden silence!
When Bradman got his last innings duck, the radio commentator
paused . . .
paused . . .
paused . . .
It was brilliant but today he’d be fired!
(Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for alerting me to this a couple of years ago!)
#theashes
When Bradman got his last innings duck, the radio commentator
paused . . .
paused . . .
paused . . .
It was brilliant but today he’d be fired!
(Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for alerting me to this a couple of years ago!)
#theashes
Great tribute to Bob Simpson by Steve Waugh:
August 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Great tribute to Bob Simpson by Steve Waugh:
Foxtel really should be sending cricket commentators to the ground.
By not going to Darwin they reduced the quality of the coverage.
I don’t blame the commentators - it’s a hard gig to call it from a studio.
#AUSvRSA
By not going to Darwin they reduced the quality of the coverage.
I don’t blame the commentators - it’s a hard gig to call it from a studio.
#AUSvRSA
August 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Foxtel really should be sending cricket commentators to the ground.
By not going to Darwin they reduced the quality of the coverage.
I don’t blame the commentators - it’s a hard gig to call it from a studio.
#AUSvRSA
By not going to Darwin they reduced the quality of the coverage.
I don’t blame the commentators - it’s a hard gig to call it from a studio.
#AUSvRSA
August 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Ha! Nice to be quoted in the same breath as Gideon Haigh.
If you look closely, you might detect a subtle difference in our relative style and vocabulary . . .
#cricket
If you look closely, you might detect a subtle difference in our relative style and vocabulary . . .
#cricket
June 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ha! Nice to be quoted in the same breath as Gideon Haigh.
If you look closely, you might detect a subtle difference in our relative style and vocabulary . . .
#cricket
If you look closely, you might detect a subtle difference in our relative style and vocabulary . . .
#cricket
Did you see the ICC video??
Meant to be celebrating the WTC final - but instead has 11 shots of Jay Shah in it.
It’s so weird! It’s hilarious!
#WTC2025
Meant to be celebrating the WTC final - but instead has 11 shots of Jay Shah in it.
It’s so weird! It’s hilarious!
#WTC2025
June 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Did you see the ICC video??
Meant to be celebrating the WTC final - but instead has 11 shots of Jay Shah in it.
It’s so weird! It’s hilarious!
#WTC2025
Meant to be celebrating the WTC final - but instead has 11 shots of Jay Shah in it.
It’s so weird! It’s hilarious!
#WTC2025
An Aussie reporter gets deliberately shot by a rubber bullet by a US officer.
The reporter had done nothing wrong.
It should be the top 10 stories in every Aussie newspaper!
The shooter should be found, prosecuted and jailed.
How the hell is THIS the SMH lead story?!
The reporter had done nothing wrong.
It should be the top 10 stories in every Aussie newspaper!
The shooter should be found, prosecuted and jailed.
How the hell is THIS the SMH lead story?!
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
An Aussie reporter gets deliberately shot by a rubber bullet by a US officer.
The reporter had done nothing wrong.
It should be the top 10 stories in every Aussie newspaper!
The shooter should be found, prosecuted and jailed.
How the hell is THIS the SMH lead story?!
The reporter had done nothing wrong.
It should be the top 10 stories in every Aussie newspaper!
The shooter should be found, prosecuted and jailed.
How the hell is THIS the SMH lead story?!
Another low score for Labuschagne.
He might be down to one more chance.
(I look possessed in the thumbnail, unfortunately).
He might be down to one more chance.
(I look possessed in the thumbnail, unfortunately).
May 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Another low score for Labuschagne.
He might be down to one more chance.
(I look possessed in the thumbnail, unfortunately).
He might be down to one more chance.
(I look possessed in the thumbnail, unfortunately).
The war intervened and 10 years passed.
Now 39, Bradman’s last tour of England in 1948 again began at Worcestershire.
Could he make it 4 doubles in a row.
Well, he reckons he could have but he got to 107 and threw it away - to give others practice!
Now 39, Bradman’s last tour of England in 1948 again began at Worcestershire.
Could he make it 4 doubles in a row.
Well, he reckons he could have but he got to 107 and threw it away - to give others practice!
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The war intervened and 10 years passed.
Now 39, Bradman’s last tour of England in 1948 again began at Worcestershire.
Could he make it 4 doubles in a row.
Well, he reckons he could have but he got to 107 and threw it away - to give others practice!
Now 39, Bradman’s last tour of England in 1948 again began at Worcestershire.
Could he make it 4 doubles in a row.
Well, he reckons he could have but he got to 107 and threw it away - to give others practice!
4 years later, in 1938, Bradman was 29 and at the peak of his powers.
He hammered 258 in the opening match - again against Worcestershire.
His 1938 tour record was astonishing:
Innings: 26
Not outs: 5
Runs: 2,429
50s: 5
100s: 13
Average: 115.66
He hammered 258 in the opening match - again against Worcestershire.
His 1938 tour record was astonishing:
Innings: 26
Not outs: 5
Runs: 2,429
50s: 5
100s: 13
Average: 115.66
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
4 years later, in 1938, Bradman was 29 and at the peak of his powers.
He hammered 258 in the opening match - again against Worcestershire.
His 1938 tour record was astonishing:
Innings: 26
Not outs: 5
Runs: 2,429
50s: 5
100s: 13
Average: 115.66
He hammered 258 in the opening match - again against Worcestershire.
His 1938 tour record was astonishing:
Innings: 26
Not outs: 5
Runs: 2,429
50s: 5
100s: 13
Average: 115.66
Four years later, in 1934, the tour again began against Worcestershire.
Bradman had been ill throughout the long ship voyage.
A few months later he almost died of appendicitis.
But he still managed another double century at Worcester. This time, 206.
Bradman had been ill throughout the long ship voyage.
A few months later he almost died of appendicitis.
But he still managed another double century at Worcester. This time, 206.
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Four years later, in 1934, the tour again began against Worcestershire.
Bradman had been ill throughout the long ship voyage.
A few months later he almost died of appendicitis.
But he still managed another double century at Worcester. This time, 206.
Bradman had been ill throughout the long ship voyage.
A few months later he almost died of appendicitis.
But he still managed another double century at Worcester. This time, 206.
It’s 95 years - almost to the minute - since Bradman first batted in England.
There was speculation about how he would go on English pitches.
He soon made it clear, with a dazzling 236 v Worcestershire.
This was the start of his torment of Worcestershire . . . (a short thread)
There was speculation about how he would go on English pitches.
He soon made it clear, with a dazzling 236 v Worcestershire.
This was the start of his torment of Worcestershire . . . (a short thread)
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s 95 years - almost to the minute - since Bradman first batted in England.
There was speculation about how he would go on English pitches.
He soon made it clear, with a dazzling 236 v Worcestershire.
This was the start of his torment of Worcestershire . . . (a short thread)
There was speculation about how he would go on English pitches.
He soon made it clear, with a dazzling 236 v Worcestershire.
This was the start of his torment of Worcestershire . . . (a short thread)
Very sad to hear of the death of Keith Stackpole.
Part of the voice of my childhood on channel 9. Only last night I heard him on 1983/84 highlights.
Here he is in the Sydney Morning Herald, having a beer after scoring a century in Brisbane on the first day of the 1970/71 Ashes.
Part of the voice of my childhood on channel 9. Only last night I heard him on 1983/84 highlights.
Here he is in the Sydney Morning Herald, having a beer after scoring a century in Brisbane on the first day of the 1970/71 Ashes.
April 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Very sad to hear of the death of Keith Stackpole.
Part of the voice of my childhood on channel 9. Only last night I heard him on 1983/84 highlights.
Here he is in the Sydney Morning Herald, having a beer after scoring a century in Brisbane on the first day of the 1970/71 Ashes.
Part of the voice of my childhood on channel 9. Only last night I heard him on 1983/84 highlights.
Here he is in the Sydney Morning Herald, having a beer after scoring a century in Brisbane on the first day of the 1970/71 Ashes.
