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Tragedy by two

It was a runs record even Don Bradman could not match: the highest first-class batting average of all, 207. Sydney’s Norman Callaway played only once for New South Wales, scoring a double century in his only innings. A year later, aged 21, he lost his life during World War One.

Scheduling cost us dearly

Those in control of Australian cricket can blame only themselves for the loss of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, even before Friday’s Sydney Test. They were stood over and bullied by their Indian counterparts.

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First produced for Summer 1973, the Cricketer Quarterly was published every three months: summer, autumn, winter and spring, for 32 years… quite a feat in ‘modern’ publishing. They are all a uniform A5 in size with colour covers. And are very comprehensive with first-class scores in detail from around the world.

Warning: R. Ashwin is here

As Australia ponders the make-up of its top six for the first Test in Adelaide, KEN PIESSE sounds a warning that too many left-handers could spell gloom and doom, especially with R. Ashwin in the opposition dressing room NEVER before has a humble finger spinner promised to reek such destruction on the dawn of a […]