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.

DOMESTIC FIXTURES

INTERNATIONAL TOUR GAMES

INTERNATIONAL FIXTURES

DOMESTIC FIXTURES

Universals Summer Cricket Guide

A HERO, AT 22 • Refreshed after a winter away from cricket, Australian cricket’s ever-so-tall new hero CAMERON GREEN is now eyeing his first ever Ashes.

CURRENT AUSTRALIANS:

JOE’S EVEREST AWAITS • Can Joe Root break through for his first wins in Australia, asks MARK BROWNING?

ASHES SUPERMAN • Is Ben Stokes cricket’s finest allrounder since Garry Sobers?

NOISY, JOLLY AND LOUD • They have become an institution home and away. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can’t ignore the Barmy Army. MARK BROWNING reports

IT STARTED WITH DOUGIE • Cricket Summer Guide editor, author and president of the Australian Cricket Society KEN PIESSE has been an Ashes devotee ever since he was 10

THERE’S DON… AND THE REST • 99.94 is cricket’s most famous average and one unlikely to be unsurpassed, says MARK BROWNING.

OPENERS: PLEASE APPLY HERE • Who will partner veteran David Warner at the head of Australia’s Test top-order this summer?

THE MEGASTARS • Meg Lanning’s Australians started their busiest summer of all boasting a winning record unprecedented in 145 years of the international game.

A QUEST FOR RUNS • Australia’s limited preparations after another year of Covid have evened the Ashes odds, says KEN PIESSE

THE AUSTRALIANS

WHITE BALL CONTENDERS

CRICKET’S WONDROUS BABES • Stretching its first Test match downunder into a fifth day would be a monumental achievement for the babes of cricket, Afghanistan. Enthusiasm accounts for only so much, says MARK BROWNING.

AFGHANISTAN’S TEST CONTENDERS

BATTLE-HARDENED AND READY

MEET THE ENGLISHMEN

2.2.22 AND ALL THAT • On February 2, 2022, the universally loved Richie Benaud will be honoured with a series of luncheons Australia-wide.

WELCOME SRI LANKA • Having played a ramp of extra T20s in their bid to qualify for the 2021 World Cup, Mickey Arthur’s Sri Lankans meet Australia in five T20s from early February.

FORMIDABLE KIWIS • World rated at both formats of white-ball cricket, New Zealand plays three ODIs and one T20 on its whistle-stop tour of Australia from late February.

DIZZY’S REDBACKS LOOK TO EXCEL • All you need to know about Australia’s premier domestic competitions

NSW BLUES

GOLD QUEENSLAND BULLS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

TASMANIA

VICTORIA • YOUNG VICS IN REBUILD

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SPECIAL YEAR FOR AUSSIE GIRLS • Australia’s elite women are scheduled to play more than 20 international matches across all three formats this extended summer, says Summer Guide editor KEN PIESSE

MEET THE AUSTRALIANS

BAYLISS, SAKER BACK IN THE BBL • The tv ratings will again be sky high as BBL No.11 starts in December side-by-side the Ashes.

2020-21 BBL HIGHLIGHTS

BBL RECORDS, 2011-21

MEETING SHANE WARNE • Shane’s first words after the introductions were: ‘Is there an ashtray handy?’Australia’s budding leg spin champion was overweight and lacking discipline, says JACK POTTER

CENTENARIES • Celebrating the centenary of the birth of four of Australia’s finest

LUNCH BREAK: BRIAN HISLOP

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE • Seeing so many die violently in...