Given its timing some will question the motivation behind the suggestion that Steve Smith might have been playing for England this winter, but doubtless it will help sell a few copies of the man’s autobiography in the Northern Hemisphere
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Australians believe their fast bowlers are going to be decisive in the coming Ashes series. In the first part of a two part feature Archie looks back at some famous pace bowling combinations who have dominated past encounters.
Author Ken Piesse has kindly agreed to us running an extract from his latest book, so keep your eye on the front page in the coming days
Whilst on the subject of the lower echelons of the game Archie has a look at an entertaining follow up
Publisher’s take note; whilst Archie and Martin don’t agree on everything, they would both like you to view photographs, statistics and an index as essential
As Archie points out in his review there are two versions of this book, the limited edition of which costs $1,000 – what he doesn’t tell us is which edition he has – is he trying to hide something from Mrs Mac?
Archie takes us back over half a century with this review, but it sounds like this tour book is still well worth reading
Martin has admitted that on Archie’s criteria he does get a gold, but only on the strength of one book – mind you he did add there are another nineteen he has read on that particular series
As always the approach of an Ashes series brings a rallying cry in Australia, and a look back at the country’s greatest son
Archie is our resident expert on Victor Trumper, so a new book on the Australian legend had to be right up to the mark in order to impress him