Australia’s Great Escape in Dubai and spirited follow-up in Abu Dhabi has given the injection the home summer needs. Even the most-unforgiving Australian cricket follower is walking just a little more jauntily right now. Cricket is back and don’t we love it.
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’:
