Greg Growden has won the 2021 Jack Pollard Literary award for the Australian Cricket Society’s cricket book of the year. His Cricketers at War was published in 2019. The award was not presented last year because of Covid. Sub titled Cricket Heroes Who also Fought for Australia in Battle, it features numerous heroes of Australian cricket have […]
ASHLEY MALLETT on the makings of The Last Invincible, the biography of his hero Neil Harvey… out soon December 22, 1954, will always be special for me. My grandfather took me to the Sydney Cricket Ground to watch the final day of the second Ashes Test. Never had I been so absorbed. Australia were ‘Typhooned’ […]
Shane’s first words after the introductions were: ‘Is there an ashtray handy?’ Australia’s budding leg spin champion was overweight and lacking discipline, says JACK POTTER The third year of my contract as head coach at the Cricket Academy was momentous. National selector Jim Higgs rang and asked if we could fit in another young player […]
Not Out at Close of Play, a life in cricket, Dennis Amiss A review by Ken Piesse Available from cricketbooks.com.au, $60 posted November 30 1974: As Brian Luckhurst and Dennis Amiss are walking out to open England’s innings, they spy the length of Dennis Lillee’s run-up. ‘How much further back is he going?’ asks Luckhurst. […]
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