2019 Hall of Famer Billy Murdoch
Australia’s finest early captain – and certainly the most militant – Billy Murdoch was a cultured technician, quick on his feet and at his best, impossible to contain when set. Scorer of the first two double-centuries in Australian-first-class cricket, in 1881-82, he also notched the first treble: 321 for NSW against Victoria in Sydney for […]
THE PRIDE OF PREYSAL, THE INSHAN ALI STORY
Inshan Ali hailed from a tiny Trinidad village called Preysal. He bowled consistently confounding big-spinning wrist spinners. So bamboozling were his each-way breaks one day in the 1973 Trinidad Test, that after two or three plays and misses, Australia’s captain Ian Chappell lobbed back a return catch. Inshan always prized that wicket as the most […]