Sportsmen love to dream. Whether it’s doing a Jack Nicklaus and storming home in the US Masters, or making 100s on consecutive days in a Boxing Day Test a la Justin Langer, we all wish for a supreme sporting moment… one to tell the grandkids. It wasn’t until my 50th birthday when I finally conceded […]
Rain, hail and showers halted our first trial game for the 2018-19 on the Mornington Peninsula yesterday. It gave me the opportunity to sit back and re-read one of my favourite books: Near Death on the Sub-Continent, the story of 4-Test South Australian Gavin Stevens.
This review for Pep, the Cec Pepper Story, from the noted historian and author David Frith in the English Cricketer magazine saw my new book rated as ‘four stars’:
MARK BROWNING REVIEWS PEP: If there is a greater ‘lived life to the full’ Australian cricketer than Cecil Pepper, I have not heard of him… and I include the likes of Keith Miller and Shane Warne. The story of Pep is one of the great Australian cricketing yarns and Ken Piesse has brought him to […]
