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40 CRICKET CRICKET THEGOOD MURUNGU SHADOW INTHE OF PACKER England’sWinterTourof PakistanandNewZealand 1977/78 BYDAVIDBATTERSBY FOREWORDBYBOBWILLIS INTHE SHADOW OF PACKER England’sWinterTourofPakistanandNewZealand 1977/78 RICHIE TheManBehind theLegend EDITEDBYNORMANTASKERAND IANHEADS FOREWORDBYJOHNBENAUD ‘Awonderful,unprecedented celebration’ MARKNICHOLAS THE ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER RICHIE The ManBehind theLegend RichieBenaudwasmuch loved. Hisbrother Johndescribeshim as ‘a champion and a true gentleman’. SirTimRice remembershim as ‘an honoraryEnglishman, loved and missed asmuch in theUK as down-under’. In Richie:TheManBehind theLegend , two ofAustralia’sfinest andmost experienced sportswriters,Norman Tasker and IanHeads,bring together the recollections of thosewhowere closest to Richie: family, friends, teammates, opponents andmedia colleagues.The result is aunique, intimate and revealing tribute to one ofAustralia’s most iconicfigures, amanwhobecame themost respectedplayer-turned- commentator in crickethistory. PitchPublishing @pitchpublishing Tweet about thisbook to @pitchpublishing or using #Richie ; read reviews and leave your own atwww.pitchpublishing.co.uk Sport/Cricket RRP: £18.99 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk For exclusive news, giveaways and competitions, follow us onTwitter and visit www.pitchpublishing.co.uk 9781785312113 THE ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER NORMANTASKER first interviewedRichie Benaud in 1960,whenNormanwas a teenage sports journalist for the DailyTelegraph in Sydney andRichiewas theAustralian cricket captain. In the years that followed,Norman covered cricket and rugby tours,was sports editor at The Sun and TheBulletin , and edited major sportsmagazines.He is the author of a number of bestselling books, including four titleswithAlanMcGilvray. IANHEADS has covered sport formore than half a century, fornewspapers andmagazines and as author ofmore than 40 books. In this time,hehas collaboratedwithmany champions, includingMarkTaylor,Arthur Beetson,Louise Sauvage,HerbElliott and Jack Gibson. In2014, Ian andRichieBenaudwere among the inaugural inductees into the Sydney CricketGround’sMediaHall ofHonour. MichaelAtherton JackBannister GregBenaud JeffBenaud JohnBenaud BillyBirmingham BrianBooth JohnBrennan AlanCardy RodneyCavalier GregChappell IanChappell MichaelClarke DennisCometti NariContractor GrahamCornes BrianCorrigan MikeCoward BobCowper DavidCox TonyCozier AlanCramond SteveCrawley JohnCurtain AlanDavidson TedDexter JonErby JamesErskine WilfEwens RichardFisk JohnFordham DavidFrith CathyGauld JohnGleeson HaroldGoodwin DavidGyngell GideonHaigh NeilHarvey BobHawke IanHealy MichaelHennessy DavidHill JohnHoward NeilHutchinson Ph otographer:www.brendanread.com RICHIE TheManBehind theLegend FEATURINGSTO Richie - Jacket - 32mm.indd 1-5 al .’ e s. is – d e d r 10/06/2016 08:42 SussexandEngland superstarMauriceTate’s story isoneof triumphand fame, controversyand tragedy. In the1920sand1930s, theall-rounderwas theworld’smostpopular cricketer, famed for hisbrilliantbowlingandbroad smile–unlikehis infamous cricketing father,whose costlyTest match errorhemore than repaid. Inhisday,Tate’s enormous feetwere the subjectof amusic-hall song, and the extrapacehe seemed to gain from thepitchwas considered ‘magical’;he’snow recognised as thefirstproper ‘seam’bowler, akeyfigure in cricket’sdevelopment.He took almost2,800first-classwickets and thrilled crowdswith rapid-fire sixes and centuries.But along thewayhe suffered anervousbreakdownon the eveof the 1932/33Bodyline series, andwas accusedof throwingbeeroverEngland skipperDouglas Jardine. After abitter sackingbySussex,Tatebecame apublican anddied innearpoverty.Althoughhewas recentlyvotedSussex’sgreatest everplayer,Tatedoesn’tfigure in anymorewidespreadHallofFame. It’s time to remember this forgottengreatofEngland cricket,whose triumphs andpersonalitywere matchedonlyby the scaleofhispersonaldisasters. Then Came The story of Maurice Tate, Cricket’s Smiling Destroyer ThenCame The story ofMaurice Tate, Cricket’s Smiling Destroyer The story ofMaurice Tate, Cricket’s Smiling Destroyer JUSTIN PARKINSON JUSTIN PARKINSON PitchPublishing @pitchpublishing Tweet about thisbook to @pitchpublishing , @JulianParkinson using #ThenCameMassacre ; and read reviewsor leave yourown at www.pitchpublishing.co.uk Sport/Cricket RRP: £8.99 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk For exclusive news, giveaways and competitions, followuson Twitter, and visit www.pitchpublishing.co.uk 9781785311475 Then Came ThenCameMassacrePB -21mm.indd AllPages 17/02/2016 13:36 28 Days’ Data 9781785311505 The Hard Yards 9781785311567 Sundial in the Shade 9781785311420 Cricket on the Continent 9781785312038 In Their Own Words 9781785311390 The Corridor of Uncertainty 9781785311178 All Wickets Great and Small 9781785311628 In the Shadow of Packer 9781785311369 Test of Character 9781785311772 Girls of Summer 9781785311352 Real International Cricket 9781785311406 Then Came Massacre 9781785311475 The Good Murungu? 9781785311314 Richie 9781785312113 The War of the White Roses 9781785311161 Stumped for your next great read? 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