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
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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 […]
The new Wisden is here
The 155th edition of Wisden, the cricketing bible is here. Three of this year’s five Cricketers of the Year are women, with one, Somerset’s Anya Shrubsole on the front cover. A perennial topic of interest in each new Almanack is the identity of the Five. It has always been a carefully-guarded secret until the embargo on […]