Barry Nicholls

When I was a little tacker back in the late 1970s the only cricket I remember was World Series Cricket, full of One Day Games, coloured uniforms and the like. I have no recollection of any other cricket played at the time and it's only been over the years hence that I've gotten the details of the matches the "official" Australian cricket team played.

The Establishment Boys provides the overview of the period of the official Australian cricket team during the World Series Cricket period, covering the players picked (and then usually dropped with great alacrity) and how they dealt with their time in the limelight and their lives since. There were a number of surprising tidbits (Ian Callen supplied the Vatican City cricket team with gear and there's a cricket ground in Jakarta named after Graham Yallop) and the sad story of Paul Hibbert but the sheer number of typos grated. Indeed I may have spotted a record number of typos for a non-self published book, and had to take a 1/2 star off my score as a result.… (plus d'informations)