On behalf of my Geelong cricket buddy Ken Davis, I have been editing his tribute book to his brother Barry Davis, a three-time AFL premiership player who also was a first XI cricketer at Essendon and made a half century in the famous 1965-66 District cricket final, the game in which Bill Lawry scored 282 […]
Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the story of the controversial 1970 South African tour by Colin Shindler, author, in 2015, of a very fine biography of Aussie-favourite Bob Barber.
I am thrilled by a review for my biography of Cec Pepper in the 2020 Wisden, just released in London. Pep, the story of Cec Pepper, the best cricketer never to represent Australia was extremely entertaining… one of the year’s most unexpected treats,’ says the Wisden reviewer Alex Massie.
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.
