The Ashes, by Mark Browning Review: Ken Piesse The near-deafening roar when Bobby Simpson’s off-stump cartwheeled courtesy of English express David Brown at the MCG in the deciding Test of the 1965-66 Ashes summer caused first-time visitor, eight-year-old Mark Browning to jump out of his seat in shock. How could it be? Simmo had made […]
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 […]
The challenge for cricket authors to write, entertain and inform is ongoing. Just how do you give your book bestselling appeal, one that simply can’t be put down? It was while pushing the third and heaviest of three crates containing 51 boxes of cricketana uphill to our garage that my wife Susan started shaking her […]
I am proud to announce a spring release of my 51st and latest cricket book A Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket, a 350 page hardback from Echo Publishing and the Five Mile Press. Australia’s Player of the Series in the 2015 Ashes Chris Rogers has supplied this foreword: Playing for Australia is a badge […]
