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.
Ken Piesse’s review of BLACK & WHITE, by Ross Taylor Ross Taylor deserves to be recognised among the new Millennium’s most outstanding and celebrated cricketers. No New Zealander has played more internationals, amassed more 100s or scored more runs across multi formats.
Collector’s love upgrading books. The Rare Book Fair in Melbourne tonight showcased a kaleidoscope of goodies, including a signed edition of Alan Davidson’s Cricket Book, which I had first been presented with on my 12th birthday by my Beaumaris school mate Mark Stone. Alan Davidson has autographed this one, , saying how ‘cricket is a […]
David Frith has provided this review for my new book ‘On Ya Warnie’ <p> Shane Warne was the cricketer of his time, a showman, a spin bowling genius, a modest and essentially good man with all faults regularly and unashamedly displayed. He became a folk hero, and not only in Australia, with close to a […]
