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HELL FOR LEATHER IBD

PHIL WILKINS
FAIR PLAY PUBLISHING
04 / 2023
9781925914573
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Sinopsis

From the 1960s until the turn of the century, Phil Wilkinsáwas chief cricket writer in turn foráThe Sydney Morning HeraldáandáThe Sun-Herald, thenáThe AustralianáandáThe Sunánewspapers.áIn this autobiography, he remembers great players watched and interviewed, historic events, reviving memories of cricketers, rugby league, rugby union and soccer players, of boxers and tennis titleholders. Among his cavalcade of champions are Rod Laver, Ian and Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, Bob Simpson, Bill Lawry and Shane Warne, EnglandâÇÖs Freddie Trueman, Ian Botham, Colin Cowdrey and Geoffrey Boycott, the West IndiesâÇÖ Vivian Richards, Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, the Pakistanis, Javed Miandad and Imran Khan, the Indians, Bishan Singh Bedi and Sunil Gavaskar, and earlier Australian immortals, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Norman OâÇÖNeill, in rugby league, Johnny Raper, Ron Coote, Reg Gasnier, Harry Wells and Bobby Fulton, in rugby union, Ray Price and Ken Catchpole, Ewen McKenzie and Phil Kearns, Tim Horan and Jason Little, David Campese and Nick Farr-Jones, all match-winners and game-breakers, the mightiest of performers. But the first of his greats was MelbourneâÇÖs Australian Rules captain and later coach, the splendid Ron Barassi.Above all players, Wilkins praises his littlest hero, the fearless nine-year-old Guyanese boy, Dominic, who saved his life by throwing himself at a pipe-wielding thug at the height of a riot in the World Series Cricket match in Georgetown on the 'Forgotten tour' of 1979, when the Australians drew the SuperTest series with Clive LloydâÇÖs world champion West Indians.