KEN PIESSE, author of more than 60 books on cricket, pays tribute to one of his heroes Bob Cowper who died this week, aged 84. So effortlessly sublime and exquisite was the quality of Bob Cowper’s silky stroke-play, that Australia’s Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies would have his chauffeur take him down to tiny Glenferrie […]
Remember the swinging ‘60s? The Beatles… Flower Power… all the way with LBJ. It was a time of change, everywhere. And 50 years on, nostalgic re-glimpses of those good old days continue to entertain and excite. In cricket, one of the brightest stars of the ‘60s was a Melburnian Bob Cowper, son of an Australian […]
Approaching its 50th year of caring for cricket, The Australian Cricket Society is re-releasing CDs of some of the best cricket speeches from all of its annual dinners dating back to the early ’70s. The latest six ACS Nostalgia Series releases are: Alan Davidson (1974), Bob Cowper (1977), Paul Sheahan (1979), Ian Brayshaw (1987), Doug Walters […]
