Celebrating with the Don
It is 110 years ago this week when the most iconic cricketer of all, Don Bradman, was born in Cootamundra in country NSW. Bradman Celebration Luncheons on Monday, August 27 are increasingly popular around the country. The greatest batsman of all remains the most celebrated — and collectible — cricketer of his or any century For […]
Australian Cricket Scandals
Steve Smith shamed himself and the game and deserved his 12 month’s suspension, says cricket writer and author KEN PIESSE in his new soon to be published new book Australia’s Cricket Scandals
The best never to play for Australia
Cec Pepper was the quintessential wild colonial boy. He blued with Bradman. He lived in a ‘menage a trois’ and willed half his fortune to a woman he’d just met. Author KEN PIESSE introduces the best cricketer never to play for Australia
The best club history I have read
I’ve just read what could well be the most impressive club history ever produced: A Famous Old Club, celebrating 175 years of the Brighton Cricket Club (1842-2017) by David King. Consisting of almost 600 pages, it is a magnificent hardback a magnum opus of club histories befitting one of Melbourne’s oldest and most successful cricket […]