Behind the Green Door
Bobby Barter is out and about at his beloved SCG every summer looking after the hallowed home room and its players - most of whom will be quick to tell you ‘he looks after us pretty good’. His book - Behind the Green Door - is about the very best of the best and what makes them tick. Ricky Ponting aligned with Robin Hood; Harbhajan Singh and Tendulkar tales; Gilly’s freshly painted but unlucky green pads; Warney’s last test dig scenario; Freddie Flintoff’s popularity; Glenn McGrath’s running in off 23.3 metres and autograph signing feats; Brett Lee’s ticker and tenacity plus his missing shirt studs; Simon Super Kat’s mixed bag of stingrays, hand stitches and magic 306; Justin Langer’s passion; Andrew Johns’ Twenty/20 one-off. They’re all there plus plenty more.
Bobby’s imbued love of the game and its superstars is a ‘must read’ for all cricket enthusiasts and Behind the Green Door as a result is an emphatically unique one off sporting manuscript. In the words of distinguished author, publisher and cricket historian Peter Murray:
"Completely absorbing- a great way of writing- makes you feel that you are in the rooms -each player captured honestly and completely - in 35 years of cricket reading, writing and publishing I have never seen a better written cricket book - an honest writing style that had me completely enthralled."
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Caricature of Dennis Lillee by Tony Rafty OAM
"Nevertheless it was business as usual and whether it’s a game out in the sticks – or for that matter the SCG with the big blokes – boys are boys - men are men - and all you need to get a game going is a bat - a ball – a bit of chewy and a drink of water."
