Month: May 2025

A SILKY GENIUS

KEN PIESSE, author of more than 60 books on cricket, pays tribute to one of his heroes Bob Cowper who died this week, aged 84. So effortlessly sublime and exquisite was the quality of Bob Cowper’s silky stroke-play, that Australia’s Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies would have his chauffeur take him down to tiny Glenferrie […]

CHAPPELL’S CHAMPIONS

Don’t you love a book so entrancing and evocative you simply can’t put it down? Barry Nicholls’ masterly memoir of Australia’s coming-of-age Ashes tour in 1972 is immersive and sparkles from page 1 when Ian Chappell fielded a phone in a Hindley Street hotel one lunchtime.