Mike Coward
Michael John Coward AM (born 1946) is an Australian cricket writer. Life and career. Mike Coward grew up in Adelaide. After leaving school he became a copy boy at the "Adelaide News" in December 1963 and was promoted to cadet journalist in September 1964. He qualified as a journalist in March 1967. He spent three years working for Australian Associated Press in London, then returned to Australia to become a full-time sports journalist. He was the chief cricket writer for the "Adelaide Advertiser", then "The Sydney Morning Herald" from 1984 to 1989, and was then a columnist  for "The Australian" for many years. He has twice won the Jack Pollard Trophy, which is awarded for the best Australian book on cricket each year: in 1991 for "Cricket Beyond the Bazaar", about cricket between Australia and India, and in 1995 for "Australia vs the New South Africa: Cricket Contact Renewed". He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Sports Commission in November 2015. He was awarded the AM in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours "For significant service to the print and broadcast media as a journalist, commentator, author and historian, and to cricket." In recent years  he has worked at the International Cricket Hall of Fame in Bowral, where he has overseen the establishment of the interview archive. He conducted many of the interviews himself, with some of the greatest Test cricketers since the Second World War.