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The softback version of Ken’s 72nd cricket book. Available now.

320- pages plus 32 pages of pictures. And an 18-page index.

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From Bundalaguah and Bet Bet to Bendigo and Blackheath the passion for bush cricket is intoxicating, says KEN PIESSE, Australia’s most prolific sportswriter, who is soon to release 100 Not Out, Celebrating a Century of Country Cricket.

Tall stories and true are the game’s oxygen, says Ken.

From an officiating umpire listening to a Test match with a transistor radio and earplug and asking the batsman if he had hit it, the first 100 years of the Victorian Country Cricket League are notable for legends, laughs, larrikins and local rules.

One bush umpire from Gisborne was known as ‘Santa’, so many lbws would he give each week. His personal best was nine… in one innings.

Another mulled over an ever-so-close lbw appeal and finally said: ‘Not out.’ It was the last ball of the day. The following week the batsman was buckling his pads ready to resume when the umpire approached: ‘Eddie,’ he said. ‘It has been troubling me all week. You’re out!’

Stories, reminiscences and great moments flow through the pages of [Italics] 100 Not Out, a 350-page tribute to the stars of today and yesteryear.