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Cricket Book Stall this Sunday at the Junction

by Ken on February 21, 2019

All my cricket book clients and friends are welcome to see my cricket book exhibition at the Junction Oval on the next two Sundays from 9.30 a.m. We are set up in the foyer of the CitiPower Centre, next to the refreshment stand.
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2019 Hall of Famer Billy Murdoch

by Ken on February 11, 2019

Australia’s finest early captain – and certainly the most militant – Billy Murdoch was a cultured technician, quick on his feet and at his best, impossible to contain when set. Scorer of the first two double-centuries in Australian-first-class cricket, in 1881-82, he also notched the first treble: 321 for NSW against Victoria in Sydney for…
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THE PRIDE OF PREYSAL, THE INSHAN ALI STORY

by Ken on February 7, 2019

Inshan Ali hailed from a tiny Trinidad village called Preysal. He bowled consistently confounding big-spinning wrist spinners. So bamboozling were his each-way breaks one day in the 1973 Trinidad Test, that after two or three plays and misses, Australia’s captain Ian Chappell lobbed back a return catch. Inshan always prized that wicket as the most…
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STARTLED RABBITS, CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS

by Ken on January 28, 2019

A distracted and under strength Sri Lanka could again be embarrassed in Canberra’s inaugural Test match. Rarely has a Test team looked so out of its depth as the Sri Lankans these past few New Year weeks.
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