Universal’s Summer Cricket Guide

Universal’s Summer Cricket Guide, edited by Australian sports journalist and commentator Ken Piesse, is a yearly edition that contains your complete tour guide for the international and domestic cricket season ahead. Including insightful editorial coverage on each team and player with commentaries by leading industry insiders on topical issues. Each magazine also contains a market place section with a review of the latest products available.

Universals Summer Cricket Guide

THE KEY STATS

LONG LIVE THE KING • Will Virat Kohli’s trademark victory howl be a signature of the summer?

A HIGH STAKES SUMMER • The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is just one of the prizes Tim Paine’s Australians are seeking this summer,

WORLD TEST CHAMPIONSHIP

REINVENTING THE WALL • Cheteshwar Pujara is the ultimate red-ball specialist with a ‘wall-like’ defence reminiscent of his idol Rahul Dravid.

AUSTRALIA V INDIA STATS

THE SPIRIT OF MODERN INDIA • Among a billion Indian cricket fans, few excite like Ravi Jadeja, says MARK BROWNING

CAPTAINCY CONTENDERS • Will this Indian summer be Tim Paine’s last as Australia’s Test captain. Or can he maintain his form… and his career?

THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN • Australia has hosted five of the finest Tests of all in the last two decades against touring Indian XIs.

THRILL OF A LIFETIME • A ‘home’ Test match awaits the Gold Coast’s Bruce Oxenford in his farewell season.

COME IN SPINNER • It’s time to encourage spin bowlers again, before it’s too late, says KEN PIESSE

THE AUSTRALIANS

INDIA IN AUSTRALIA

CHAMPIONS ON THE RISE • Who will be the ‘next’ Labuschagne… the one to suddenly rise and excel?

STARS READY TO RUMBLE • More than a million fans are again likely to attend this summer’s BBL, given a health clearance for major grounds, especially in Melbourne, to host big crowds.

WARNER’S NEMESIS • Sixteen questions guaranteed to tempt, tease and entertain even the most alert cricket fan

CAN NSW DOMINATE AGAIN? • Will it be a 48th Sheffield Shield title for NSW in 2020-21? Will a full home-and-away season be possible with Covid-19 concerns?

NSW BLUES

QUEENSLAND BULLS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

TASMANIA

VICTORIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

TRANS TASMAN DELIGHTS • A return tournament in New Zealand beckons in the New Year for Meg Lanning and her world champion Australians, says KEN PIESSE.

LUNCH BREAK: BRIAN HISLOP

BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE • The key steps to on-field success don’t change. The harder and smarter you work, the luckier you get, says leading Victorian-based cricket coach KEN DAVIS

TORNADO THOMMO STRIKES • DAN LIEBKE has ranked Australia’s top 50 cricketers from 1970 onwards. At No. 35 is the feared expressman Jeff Thomson

ALSO NEW IN 2020

STILL INVINCIBLE • Few sportsmen have been more popular or loved in their own time and beyond as Sam Loxton, says author MARTIN ROGERS

CRICKETING PARIAHS • From a band of rebel West Indians still paying the price for their hypocrisy to the roller-coaster which is the English cricket captaincy, the new books on offer again this Christmas will engage and entertain, says KEN PIESSE

TALL TALES & TRUE

WAUGH’S $14,500 CAP • There has been a resurgence of interest in caps, helmets, signed bats and even ‘coffins’ among collectors Australia-wide

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