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The best never to play for Australia

Cec Pepper was the quintessential wild colonial boy. He blued with Bradman.  He lived in a ‘menage a trois’ and willed half his fortune to a woman he’d just met. Author KEN PIESSE introduces the best cricketer never to play for Australia

The best club history I have read

I’ve just read what could well be the most impressive club history ever produced: A Famous Old Club, celebrating 175 years of the Brighton Cricket Club (1842-2017) by David King. Consisting of almost 600 pages, it is a magnificent hardback  a magnum opus of club histories befitting one of Melbourne’s oldest and most successful cricket […]

The new Wisden is here

The 155th edition of Wisden, the cricketing bible is here. Three of this year’s five Cricketers of the Year are women, with one, Somerset’s Anya Shrubsole on the front cover. A perennial topic of interest in each new Almanack is the identity of the Five. It has always been a carefully-guarded secret until the embargo on […]

Reviewing Cricket’s Outlaws

KEN PIESSE reviews Cricket’s Outlaws, inside Kerry Packer’s World Series Revolution This week, 40 years ago, World Series Cricket began with a whimper at Linton Street, Moorabbin, a boggy suburban football venue best known for the Doc, big Carl and Allan Jeans. The cream of Australia’s best cricketers practised on a set of sub-standard practice […]