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Playing the game in the right spirit (whatever that means) – the fine art of cheating at cricket
Before he took a hammering at the hands of Terence Crawford in Las Vegas, Australia’s fleeting world welterweight champion, Jeff Horn, claimed that the scales had been doctored before his weigh-in for the bout. He needed to strip naked and then still lose another 8oz to get down to the 147 lb limit for his division. Given Crawford’s clear superiority in the ring, you’d have to … [Read more...]
How Socrates (nearly) openned the batting for Australia! A true cricket tale.
I was in the second year of an overseas posting working for a multi-national publishing company in Maidenhead, England. One day the Managing Director of the U.K. Publishing house I worked for stopped me in the foyer as I was leaving the building. I was about to start a three-day road trip visiting university towns in the North of England to jag some new authors for the … [Read more...]
A Summer With Geoff – friendship reveals the soul behind the stony concentration of Geoff Boycott
The red double-decker bus was packed with celebrities in various stages of decay. Actors, singers, sportsmen and then there was me. The reason we were all riding the bus? A celebrity pub crawl to introduce a slew of imported beers into Australia. Carlsberg Elephant Beer, Grolsch, Corona to name a few. The rest escape my mind, my memory is hazy at best; completely gone at … [Read more...]