Blast from the past
The Surfer stumbled on two pieces that evoke history.
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
The Surfer stumbled on two pieces that evoke history.
After the Hobart Test, Mike Coward watches Australian and West Indian players engage in a game of soccer and says:
The cordial relations between the teams is a far cry from the general mood of the 1980s and 1990s when more often than not brutal contests led to resentment and bitter enmities that could not be or were not resolved over a beer or rum punch in the dressing room.
In The Age, Doug Ackerly revisits a tour that began 20 years back, when a group of outcast Australian cricketers began the first of two controversial rebel tours of South Africa.