TFW Book Club - First Tests, with Steve Cannane

The Final Word Cricket Podcast · Mar 31, 2024 · 1h

Book Club 4: Steve Cannane - First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards That Made Them

Steve Cannane has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and the ABC's senior foreign correspondent in Europe since 2021. But aside from his important work, his passion is cricket - for decades, he charged in every Saturday as an opening bowler. And it was with his club side, watching a teammate's unorthodox batting technique, where a question was planted: how much do the childhood backyards of players influence what we eventually see at the top level? The answer was a beautiful and…