TALL STORIES & TRUE
According to Ricky Ponting, few eat, breathe and sleep cricket like Melburnian Ken Piesse, author of almost 60 cricket books including this fun offering Favourite Cricket Yarns. Ken has witnessed Test cricket from Bridgetown to Bellerive and Johannesburg to Cardiff.
Born to Play, the Barry Davis Story
‘Don’t you dare say anything until you calm down, we’ll talk about this then,’ said Barry Davis. And instead of delivering one of his infamous ‘sprays’, football’s messiah Ron Barassi backed off.
Cricketing Caesar
Mike Brearley has a mythical status in English cricket. As the man who effected a stunning turnaround of the Ashes in 1981 ‘he proved that dreams can really come true,’ says author Mark Peel. ‘He played a critical part in bringing out the best in Ian Botham and Bob Willis, both of whom had lost […]
The hollow crown, by Mark Peel
The captaincy of England’s Test team has always been the highest of honours and among the most onerous.