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 INTERNATIONALS

MOTTY’S LADS FAVOURED • It promises to be an electric 45-match program, with England early favourites to become T20 champions of the world.

TWENTY20 COLOSSUS • Wicketkeeper and opening batsman Jos Buttler has triple responsibility in his first major tournament as England’s new Twenty20 leader

GENIUSES ALL • It’s time for another Caribbean batting champion to emerge, says MARK BROWNING

LYON’S SPIN SUCCESSOR • For how much longer can Nathan Lyon, ‘The Goat’ – the Greatest Of All Time – maintain his form and stay ahead of the pack?

THE IMMORTAL ARTHUR MORRIS • Bradman Invincible Arthur Morris would have been 100 years old in 2022. DAVID FRITH remembers one of the finest opening batsmen of them all.

BLUEPRINT TO VICTORY • The Proteas look vulnerable and can be beaten, in the first series with Australia in five years.

A DUEL TO SAVOUR • Rabada v Cummins shapes as the contest of the summer, says MARK BROWNING

CHANGES COMING SOON • Will an ageing Australian XI be derailed by the menacing Kagiso Rabada?

AUSTRALIA V SOUTH AFRICA

AUSTRALIA V WEST INDIES

THE AUSTRALIANS

WHITE BALL CONTENDERS

THE GREAT SURVIVOR • Cricket-crazy Barbados remains the most fertile of recruiting grounds for West Indies cricket and farewelling evergreen paceman Kemar Roach an enduring favourite, says MARK BROWNING

WEST INDIES

THE TOUGHEST PROTEA OF ALL • He may not be flamboyant or easy on the eye, but Dean Elgar, South Africa’s first-time captain downunder, commands universal respect.

SOUTH AFRICA

BUILD THE MAN A STATUE • Scott Boland is desperate for another opportunity after his stunning entry into Test cricket.

BRING ON INDIANS, SAYS PAT • Australia played five Tests in winter, winning two, losing one and drawing two

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Fancy yourself as a walking cricket encyclopedia? Here are 10 questions to test both the juniors and the seniors…

ASHES HONOURS ADD INCENTIVE • The prospect of touring England for the Ashes in 2023 is a rich prize for the best-performed Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup cricketers this summer

NSW BLUES

QUEENSLAND

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

TASMANIA

VICTORIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

A quirky ‘ABC’ of Australian Cricket • An Australia-wide cricket miscellany of fun, facts, oddities and anecdote from cricket’s master storyteller Ken Piesse.

NEW CHALLENGES FOR LANNING’S ALL-STARS • The profile of women’s cricket continues to advance rapidly with regular tv coverage of the WBBL and more frequent international matches.

DU PLESSIS AMONG THE NEW BIG NAMES • The first-ever Big Bash League draft will reinvigorate the BBL, triggering the recruiting of almost two dozen overseas players.

CARD HEAVEN: RECEIVE 2 PACKS FREE • The latest collection of 2022-23 Cricket Trading Cards are assured summertime best sellers. And, enjoy this-bonus on us…

THE HARROW DISCOVERY CENTRE • This hidden gem in the west of Wimmera, just off the road to Adelaide, is well worth a visit.

KEN’S 24/7 OBSESSION • MARK BROWNING on one of the standout new cricket books this Christmas

COLLECTING WARNIE • The most in-demand, irresistible Shane Warne memorabilia

EVERY ENTRY WINS...