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Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket

Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket

by Ken Piesse
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/2016

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To celebrate 140 years of Test cricket, Ken Piesse, our pre-eminent cricket writer and owner of Australia's finest private collection of cricket images - photographs, cigarette and trade cards, badges posters, blotting papers - has created a visual treat for the cricket fan. This really exciting and compelling mix of illustrative material and narrative history through-the-ages makes for a wonderful gift book. This is the most exciting event in the cricket publishing calendar: a very pictorial history of Australian cricket. Foreword by Chris Rogers. Ken Piesse is the owner of the best cricket image collection in the country, and this is the book of his life. Celebrating 140 years of Test cricket - the first Test cricket match was March 1877. Features never-before-seen photographs plus cigarette cards, badges, ephemera.
ISBN:
9781760400866
9781760400866
Category:
Sports & outdoor recreation
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-10-2016
Publisher:
Echo Publishing
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
275x230mm
Ken Piesse

Ken Piesse has had a lifetime in sports journalism as a writer, author, commentator and publisher. He specialises on cricket and Australian Rules football – all but one of his 72 published books being on his two favourite games.

If you like sport, you're likely to have at least one of Ken Piesse’s books on your bookshelves at home. His books have sold in the tens of thousands worldwide.

Ken first worked in Melbourne newspapers in 1973 for The Age before joining the Sporting Globe as chief cricket and football writer and the Sunday Observer as sports editor.

His awards and decorations include the Victorian Cricket Association’s Media Award (1995) for a two-part series on Shane Warne, and Cricket Victoria’s Television Award (2002) for the Best Feature Story (on Cameron White). He again won the major VCA media award in 2013 for a feature on one-Test Australian player and former teammate Bryce McGain.

Ken is the president of the Australian Cricket Society

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