Wisden replica jackets add value
Have just been housing my post-war Wisdens in replica jackets and they look sensational. There are two sets available: 1946-64 and 1965-78.
Cricket’s first Lady of Scoring
Diane Spark has claims to be Australian cricket’s First Lady of scoring. She has been full-time scorer for the French Island first XI for 54 uninterrupted summers.
THE MAGIC OF SPIN
From confabs with ‘Tiger’ O’Reilly at the Pineapple Hotel to a little known net’s session between Ian Chappell and Shane Warne, Ashley Mallett’s The Magic of Spin is one of those impossible-to-put-down books which will delight again and again. Hard-spinning, dipping deliveries just above the eye level have been sorting out even the most confident […]
KEEPER OF STYLE: JOHN MURRAY’S STORY
John Murray was one of the great ones. Not a champion cricketer, in the ilk of a Edrich or Compton, his early Middlesex teammates, but a champion bloke, kind, modest, brave, loyal and always exceedingly generous.