Favourite Cricket Yarns: From Laughs and Legends to Sledges and Stuff-ups
By Ken Piesse
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From a horse that took a triple hat-trick, to captains who tossed over the telephone, and an umpire who went missing in mid-over for a wee, Favourite Cricket Yarns is a compelling smorgasboard of tall and mostly true stories, from Australian cricket’s master storyteller Ken Piesse, who began a 50-year association with the game as a scorer for his local club.
Gaffes, sledges, bloopers and quips are intermingled between laugh-a-minute mid-pitch anecdotes and a stunning range of illustrations and cartoons sure to delight.
Ken Piesse
Ken Piesse has achieved legendary status in the field of cricket, having written more than 70 books. He is a three-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s Major Media Award. Ken has written 75 books, 51 of which are on cricket. He has seen Test matches from the Basin to Barbados and Trent Bridge to the ‘Wacker’. In 2015, he received the Cricket Victoria Major Media Award, his third such honour, for an interview story with Chris Rogers in the Australian Cricket Society’s Pavilion magazine. President of the Australian Cricket Society since 2006, Ken is a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club’s Media Hall of Fame and a life member of the Frankston Heat Cricket Club. In 1996–97, he won the Jack Ryder Medal for the best all-round cricketer in Premier Cricket’s third XI competition. His previous cricket books for Echo include A Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket, Favourite Cricket Yarns, Great Australian Cricket Stories and Dynamic Duos. Ken’s website is cricketbooks.com.au
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