In the most magical hour of his stellar career, Australia’s inspirational captain takes five wickets in 25 balls as Australia miraculously retains the Ashes… excerpts from Heroes of the Hour….. Throughout almost all of his celebrated captaincy reign Richie Benaud dared to be different. He had the King Midas touch, his inspired leadership reinvigorating Test cricket […]
One of the lovely forthcoming Christmas books from the UK is Connie, the marvellous life of Learie Constantine by Harry Pearson. Here is a little about the book: His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave.
Some meetings are truly memorable. Mine with Sir Everton Weekes was in Bridgetown, Barbados at a Test match in ‘99. A gentle, softly spoken man with a genuine handshake and a ready smile, he was working alongside broadcaster Donna Symmonds, describing what was to become one of the most exciting West Indian Tests of all. […]
Priorities for Ian Chappell came in a firm order: 1. Australia, 2. South Australia; 3. Glenelg. After the final Test of 1975, Chappell fulfilled a promise to his wife and voluntarily stepped down from the Australian captaincy before ‘the bastards’ — as he termed the administrators — could get him.
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