KEN PIESSE reviews Tim Paine’s autobiography The Price Paid So angry and broken was Tim Paine after exiting the Australian Test captaincy in disgrace, that he pondered taking his own life. His Australian and Tasmanian kitbags were binned: pads, bats, gloves, helmets, everything.
David Warner’s polarising onfield behavior is central in Faf du Plessis’s just released autobiography ‘Faf Through Fire’. Describing Warner as his fiercest rival, he said the sledging he and others received from Warner was totally against the spirit of the game and triggered a dramatic reaction from the South Africans in the tersest Test series […]
Lindsay Hassett has been named Geelong’s most outstanding international sportsman or women, by author John Craven. Craven selected 100 Geelong Region all-time international sports greats and Brownlow Medallists and Hassett is No1, ahead of John sandy and Russell Mockridge.
BY KEN PIESSE, this story originally published in 2019 Alan “Froggie” Thomson was a formidable opponent in the 1960s and 1970s with an action all of his own. He was just 14 at the time when it was suggested to him that his windmill, chest-on, wrong foot bowling action needed serious modification, if we was […]
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