Players / Keith Stackpole

'I just try to convey my enjoyment of cricket'

Jan 30, 2012: Now as 40 years ago, Bill Lawry can get excited at the drop of a hat - by a shot, a ball, a catch. His job, he says, is to make the man in the garden come into the house to check what happened

Cricinfo XI

Horror starts

Jun 20, 2007: Batsmen who have been out to the first ball of a Test

January 2006

When they were kings

Jan 1, 2006: South Africa's 4-0 clean sweep of Australia in 1969-70 showcased some of the game's all-time greats yet none of them ever played Test cricket again

End of an era

Stackpole calls it quits as ABC commentator

Mar 7, 2005: Keith Stackpole, the former Australian opener, has given up his commentary position with the ABC

Vic players' re-united in long room

Oct 16, 2003: Past and present Victorian First Class players will be re-united tonight for the last supper in the MCC Long Room

The original Little Master

Jul 10, 2003: 1949 In Bombay, one of the greatest openers of all time is born

CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 1973

Keith Stackpole

1973: If we are to believe the simple argument that the purpose of cricketers walking on to the field is to entertain, then no one more deserves the honour of being named one of the Five Cricketers of the Year than Keith Raymond Stackpole, the Australian