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WINDIES TEETERING

A new hero or two is critical to the immediate future and success of West Indian red ball cricket, says KEN PIESSE. <p> There has always been something magnetic and magical about West Indian cricket.<p> When Bobby Simpson’s Australians toured the Caribbean in 1965, my parents moved my bed into the lounge room so I […]

CRICKET’S QUIRKY ABC

My 65th and latest cricket book is a quirky ABC of Australian Cricket, being published in October by Echo/Bonnier Books. My Australia-wide cricket miscellany of fun, facts, oddities and anecdote includes a foreword by Scott Boland, who ended the Christmas Test early with a remarkable spell of six for 7.

Ken’s 24/7 obsession

Cricket is a 24/7 all-year obsession for author, commentator and Mount Eliza lower XIs allrounder Ken Piesse. The long-time president of the Australian Cricket Society, Ken revels in his daily diet of cricket, whether playing, watching or writing about it. He followed a first-ball duck in Saturday club ranks with a career-best ‘six-for’ recently and […]

TALL STORIES & TRUE

According to Ricky Ponting, few eat, breathe and sleep cricket like Melburnian Ken Piesse, author of almost 60 cricket books including this fun offering Favourite Cricket Yarns. Ken has witnessed Test cricket from Bridgetown to Bellerive and Johannesburg to Cardiff.