Luke Foley
Luke Foley is a Labor member of the NSW Legislative Counil. He was the winner of the Channel Nine Sidchrome Supertest team competition in the summer of 1983/84. He is also a journeyman suburban park cricketer.
Articles by Luke Foley
Red, Green and Pauline: How Hanson was held back
Yesterday, Pauline Hanson’s umpteenth attempt to climb out of the political grave ended in failure. But only just. If NSW…... Read more
We must have the courage to change
On Saturday NSW Labor suffered the heaviest defeat in our 120-year history. Losing an election after 16 years in office…... Read more
No more excuses: sack the selectors and punt Ponting
Defeat at the hands of a weak English side is the wake up call that the Australian cricket hierarchy has…... Read more
Allan Border still the greatest Australian batsman
No Australian cricketer has scored more runs for his country than Ricky Ponting. The Tasmanian has overhauled Allan Border’s Australian…... Read more
Australian cricket doomed if we don’t back the young
Lawrie Sawle is the most unrecognised contributor to the Australian cricket supremacy of the last two decades. A West Australian…... Read more
England’s toffy cricket elite keeps the crowds at bay
Tonight, a young man from New South Wales will step on to a cricket field in old South Wales. Phillip…... Read more
Australia’s real crisis of spin is on the cricket pitch
Leggies. Googlymen. Chinamen. Mystery spinners. Australia chooses spin bowlers to take wickets, not merely to tie up an end. Until…... Read more
There’s only one Ian Botham: selectors still living in past
Here is a question for your cricket club’s next trivia night. Name England’s Test all rounders between Botham and Flintoff…... Read more
Tons of tedium on pitches watered with bowlers’ tears
Cricket’s foremost nineteenth century moralist the Reverend James Pycroft published his famous treatise The Cricket Field in 1851. He recalled…... Read more
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