Barry Nicholls

A reflection on Barry Nicholls' life, Second Innings, explores the author's struggle with mental health and the road to recovery, using his love of the game of cricket to make sense of it all. Set partly in the present, Second Innings includes flashbacks through five decades of life and focuses particularly on the lives of the men across the generations...

Set during Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket revolution, The Establishment Boys tells the story of the Australian Test cricketers plucked from the backwaters of the domestic game to take on full-strength international sides. Some became cricketing greats, while others were lost in the footnotes of history. Yet, all have important stories to share. From 1977/78 to the reconciliation, two Australian...