Lindsay Hassett has been named Geelong’s most outstanding international sportsman or women, by author John Craven. Craven selected 100 Geelong Region all-time international sports greats and Brownlow Medallists and Hassett is No1, ahead of John sandy and Russell Mockridge.
BY KEN PIESSE, this story originally published in 2019 Alan “Froggie” Thomson was a formidable opponent in the 1960s and 1970s with an action all of his own. He was just 14 at the time when it was suggested to him that his windmill, chest-on, wrong foot bowling action needed serious modification, if we was […]
Great Achievers & Characters in Australian Cricket is a comprehensive look at Australian cricket’s most notable players and dramas throughout the ages, Roland Perry gives readers insight into the career highs and lows of many of the game’s biggest names and provides his take on what went on behind the scenes in some of the biggest […]
My father thought I’d grow out of it.<p> But more than 50 years after he generously financed the purchase of my first big cricket library, seven boxes of hardback books from a Mr Gregory in Christchurch, I am just as compulsive and obsessive about collecting.
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