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No ABC Cricket Book for this summer’s Ashes

by Ken on June 17, 2015

For the first time since 1934, the ABC will not produce an Ashes cricket book for the coming 2015 northern summer. Senior commentator Jim Maxwell said it was an unfortunate sign of the times. A 2015-16 summer ABC Cricket Book is likely. Collecting ‘ABCs’ has become a lifetime habit for many, with many updating the…
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Welcome to my new website

by Ken on June 7, 2015

Hello everyone Have taken our cricketbooks.com.au website into the 21st Century… with a complete overhaul and a relaunch…. do check out the new coming titles and the reviews which include Barry Nicholls’ highly-recommended The Establishment Boys ($35), to be launched in September in Melbourne. Also just in is the Official MCC story of the Ashes…
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Aussie whitewash likely

by Ken on June 3, 2015

My theory that two spinners in the Caribbean were a must for Australia to cleansweep the Windies was blown out of the water in the first two sessions at Roseau overnight. I felt the spin friendly surfaces of Windsor Park in Roseau and Kingston in Jamaica would prompt the promotion of Fawad Ahmed into Australia’s elite XI…
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Kingston Saints welcome Ryan Harris

by piessedev on March 12, 2015

Ryan Harris was a most eloquent guest of honour at the Kingston Saints Cricket Club on Friday night in a World Cup eve function we ran in association with the Saints, the Austn Cricket Society and the Elite Cricket Academy. More than 80 attended and Ryan signed literally hundreds of autographs. I MC’ed the night……
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