Tag: Cec Pepper

‘One of the year’s most unexpected treats’

I am thrilled by a review for my biography of Cec Pepper in the 2020 Wisden, just released in London. Pep, the story of Cec Pepper, the best cricketer never to represent Australia was extremely entertaining…  one of the year’s most unexpected treats,’ says the Wisden reviewer  Alex Massie.

the wild colonial boy

MARK BROWNING REVIEWS PEP: If there is a greater ‘lived life to the full’ Australian cricketer than Cecil Pepper, I have not heard of him… and I include the likes of Keith Miller and Shane Warne. The story of Pep is one of the great Australian cricketing yarns and Ken Piesse has brought him to […]

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