Ken Piesse
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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I've been hooked on cricket ever since I was 10. Mike Smith’s MCC had arrived in Perth for a stopping-all-stations summer of Ashes cricket, involving all the major capital cities, coast-to-coast. Every second day in the Melbourne Age, Percy Beames would profile a tourist from returning champions like Ken Barrington and Colin Cowdrey through to first-timers David Brown and Jeff Jones. It inspired my lifelong habit of keeping newspaper clippings. Later I was to work with Perc.
I've been hooked on cricket ever since I was 10. Mike Smith’s MCC had arrived in Perth for a stopping-all-stations summer of Ashes cricket, involving all the major capital cities, coast-to-coast. Every second day in the Melbourne Age, Percy Beames would profile a tourist from returning champions like Ken Barrington and Colin Cowdrey through to first-timers David Brown and Jeff Jones. It inspired my lifelong habit of keeping newspaper clippings. Later I was to work with Perc.
The very year I was born, 1955, he broke the biggest story of his career, when the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s pitch was watered mid-Test before ‘the Typhoon’, Frank Tyson decimated Australia with seven for 27. One of Perc’s old footy mates had tipped him off. For 24 hours he’d sat on the story, believing its publication would be detrimental to cricket’s good name.
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