Great Australian cricket stories
By: Ken Piesse ; [foreword by Colin McDonald]
Publisher: Five Mile Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Scoresby, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781742486536
Subjects: Cricket; Anecdotes
Description: Piesse has provided an extraordinary and entertaining array of cricketing yarns and tall stories spiced by some truly magnificent and many never-before-published images and illustrations. Featuring literally hundreds of stories from events, laughs, larrikins and legends through to contributions from cricketers themselves, including the great innings, favourite fiction, cricketing verse and much, much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. 99.94; title: 2. The sultan of spin; title: 3. Trailblazers; title: 4. Top guns; title: 5. Up close and personal; title: 6. Tests of nerves; title: 7. The extraordinary; title: 8. Boys will be boys; title: 9. Matches & matchwinners; title: 10. Tall tales and true; title: 11. What happens on tour...; title: 12. Fot, Red and other superstars.