It’s 60 years since a teenage Barry Davis rode his pushbike into Windy Hill and parked it outside Essendon’s dressing rooms. Alec Epis was walking past, introduced himself and told him to ‘bring it in here… it’ll be safer inside’.
For those without cable tv, Rob Key remains a background Pom who played a handful of Tests against Australia years back for just one 50. But he is among the elite to make a Test double-century at Lord’s and his stories and refreshingly frank opinions challenge and amuse; it’s little wonder he has become one […]
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.
‘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.
