First Edition. pp. 390 illusts #0318/0319 This is a fascinating story of the formation, development and playing of the club cricket competition in Perth, which was the foundation for the creation of the Western Australian Cricket Association in 1885. Through its many trials and tribulations, the competition survived and prospered to become acknowledged as one of the strongest club competitions in the cricket-playing world in the 1960s and 1970s. It tells in great detail the stories of its milestones and of the famous people who played and administered the competition “ as well as providing an in-depth history of its constituent clubs throughout a long history plus a retinue of statistics to delight the most avid of cricket enthusiasts.

Excerpt from Foreword by Dennis Lillee:”In short