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Cricket’s first Lady of Scoring

by Ken on January 14, 2020

Diane Spark has claims to be Australian cricket’s First Lady of scoring. She has been full-time scorer for the French Island first XI for 54 uninterrupted summers.
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THE MAGIC OF SPIN

by Ken on November 11, 2019

From confabs with ‘Tiger’ O’Reilly at the Pineapple Hotel to a little known net’s session between Ian Chappell and Shane Warne, Ashley Mallett’s The Magic of Spin is one of those impossible-to-put-down books which will delight again and again. Hard-spinning, dipping deliveries just above the eye level have been sorting out even the most confident…
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KEEPER OF STYLE: JOHN MURRAY’S STORY

by Ken on October 24, 2019

John Murray was one of the great ones. Not a champion cricketer, in the ilk of a Edrich or Compton, his early Middlesex teammates, but a champion bloke, kind, modest, brave, loyal and always exceedingly generous.
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Bob’s Boys, signed by most of the team

by Ken on October 22, 2019

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…
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