The first cricket game to be covered on radio between two teams from New South Wales was a charity game in Australia in 1922. Len Watt was the man behind the mike. Regular commentary started during the 1924-25 Ashes series, where a summary of the day’s play would be given at regular intervals on a Sydney radio station. The first …

Wilma Wallaby hopped along And burst into a cheery song, In the hot Australian sun She loved to hop and skip and run. An injured bird heard Wilma sing And said, “Please stop, I’ve hurt my wing.” Wilma stopped and, bending down, She picked the bird up off the ground, And popped him in her pouch so he Was safe …

The Boxing Day match is a cricket match hosted in Melbourne, Australia, and Victoria, involving the Australian cricket team and the opposition national team touring Australia at that time. It begins on Boxing Day (Dec 26) and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Boxing Day is so called as traditionally, it was the day when people would give a …

There is no hard and fast rule about choosing cricket colours. In most cases, the country adopts colours from their national flags – as Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, West Indies, Zimbabwe do. In some cases, the country wears the national colours – Australia wears green and gold, Holland wears orange, South Africa wears dark green and New Zealand wears black (silver …

The 1995-96 World Cup series in Australia saw the first use of shirt numbers in international cricket, with most players assigned their number and some players getting to choose their number. Other countries soon adopted the practice, but it wasn’t until several years later that players would consistently wear the same number all year. Player numbering was first used in …

The earliest Mother’s Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600’s, England celebrated a day called “Mothering Sunday”. Celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent (the 40-day-period leading up to Easter), “Mothering Sunday” honoured the mothers of England. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, …

Not all birds migrate, but a lot of them do, two of the best known British migrating birds being the swallow and the house martin, which fly south in the autumn to spend the winter in parts of Africa. The reason they do this is because of the need for food, of which there is a great shortage in northern …

The giant or King Protea, South Africa’s national flower, is the largest of the proteas species, which make up an important part of the Cape Floral Region, a major global biodiversity hotspot and UNESCO World Heritage site. The South African cricket team got its name from this flower with pink and yellow petals. Similarly, South Africa’s rugby team is called …

Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open governments. Assange has worked as a computer programmer and was a hacker during his youth. He …

It is not only animals and plants that are in a danger of disappearing from our planet in the face of the industrial ‘advanced’ nations. There are many races of people that have survived in a very simple, stable way of life for many centuries only to be threatened with destruction in the space of a few decades. A good …