Ashley Mallett - One of a Kind: The Doug Walters Story

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Doug Walters to author, Sydney, March 2006.

Told to author by Ray Johnston, August 2006.

ibid.

Ray Johnston, telephone conversation with author, September 2006.

Bill OReilly, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 December 1965.

Lyrics courtesy Ian Quinn, August 2006.

Tom Keneally in email to author, 6 October 2006.

Richie Benaud in email to author, 31 October 2006.

Norman Tasker in email to author, 1 September 2006.

Ian Wooldridge, Introduction, Two for the Road, by Doug Walters and Rod Marsh, Swan Publishing, 1992, pp. 923.

Alan McGilvray, talking to author, Sydney, 1981.

Ian Wooldridge, London Evening Standard, 13 December 1965.

Quotes sourced from Womans Day article by Susan Dunlop, Cricket Runs in the Family, 21 February 1966, pp. 567.

Selected quotes by Jim Fuller as reported in the Dungog Chronicle, 19 January 1966.

Letter to Doug Walters from Ian Johnson, dated 4 March 1966.

The National Service Scheme 19641972, Australian War Memorial, by Sue Langford, p. 11.

ibid., pp. 1112.

In April 2007, the remains of two soldiers were found in Vietnam. They are believed to be two of the six missing in action from the year 1965 (official Australian Army figures differ, depending upon the official or department you contact).

Roger McDonald, Barry Humphries Flashbacks, 1999, Harper-Collins, p. 89.

Ian Wooldridge, who wrote the foreword to Doug Walters and Rod Marshs book, Two for the Road, 1992, Swan Publishing, Nedlands, WA, p. 94.

ibid., p. 96.

Caroline Walters to author, Sydney, October 2006.

Letter to K.D. Walters from Keith Miller, dated 7 March 1968.

Letter from Australian Armypermission to proceed overseas, 19 April 1968.

Paul Sheahan, email to author, dated 25 August 2006.

Brilliance of Walters in Bold Relief , by Jack Fingleton, The Times, 11 June 1968.

Letter to Doug Walters c/- Australian Cricket Team c/- Australia House, London from Mayor A.W. Hammett dated 14 June 1968.

Caroline Walters, email to author, 2 November 2006.

ibid.

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Don Bradman, letterin part to author, dated 26 June 1985.

Phil Tresidder, Sydney Sun, 11 February 1969.

Richie Benaud, Daily Mirror, 12 February 1969.

Ian Chappell to author, Sydney, 2004.

Sir Donald Bradman letter to Doug Walters, dated 19 February 1969.

scrapbooks, next to a cheque for two shillings and three-pence, given to him by a Hobart fan. The cheque is dated 21 January 1966 and was never cashed.

Grave Concern Felt for Cricketers Welfare, Sydney Sun, by Phil Tresidder, 24 December 1969.

AM, ABC Radio with Tony Easterly, 22 April 2004.

Trevor Howard to author, 20 January 1970.

Phil Tresidder, Sydney Sun, January 1970.

Among Doug Walters newspaper clippings, author unknown.

Eric Litchfield, Rand Daily Mail, 22 March 1970.

Phil Tresidder, Sydney Sun, containing grabs from Afrikaanse newspaper Die Burger (editorial), Cape Town; The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and London Sun, 22 March 1970.

Australian team manager Fred Bennett at Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, March 1970.

Bobby Simpson, Pads Up, Sydney Sun, 14 March 1970.

Sir Donald Bradman, letter to author dated 14 August 1992.

Ross Duncan to author, Brisbane, 2006.

Historic 100 By Walters Before Lunch, Daily Mirror, 6 January 1972.

Ian Chappell, in conversation with author, September 2006.

Dennis Lillee, in conversation with author, 11 September 2006.

Australians Have Flexibility But May Lack Variety, E.W. Swanton, Daily Telegraph, Friday 28 April 1972.

ibid.

Eye on the Ashes: England Must Nail Doug EarlyOr Feel the lash, Ray Illingworth, London Mirror, May 1972.

Cricket writer Mike Coward, email to author, dated 2 September 2006.

Dads Army Goes Barmy, Ted Dexter, London Daily Express, 10 June 1972.

Ian Chappell, in conversation with author, October 2006.

ibid.

Walters Answers His Critics With A Chanceless 159, Phil Wilkins, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1972.

Ian Chappell in Passing Tests, Lynton Press, Coromandel Valley, South Australia, 1973, p. 43.

Ian Chappell, in telephone conversation with author, September 2006.

ibid.

Phil Wilkins, The Sun-Herald, 25 March 1973.

Ian Chappell, in telephone conversation with author, September 2006.

Rodney Marsh, in conversation with author, Adelaide Oval, 15 September 2006.

Sir Donald Bradman, in conversation with author, Adelaide, 1991.

Ross Edwards, in email to author, July 2006.

Bob Willis, in conversation with author, May 2007.

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Ross Edwards, in email to author, July 2006.

ibid.

Sir Donald Bradman, letter to author, dated 8 June 1984.

Brendon Bracewell, in email to author, August 2006.

John Bracewell, in email to author, September 2006.

Christine Wallace, The Private Don, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004, p. 69.

E.W. Jim Swanton, Swanton in Australia, Collins, London, p. 151.

Ian Chappell, Headingly, Leeds, August 1975.

Ian Chappell in conversation with author, August 2006.

Upon his return from the 1975 England tour, Doug was awarded the MBE at Government House, Sydney, by NSW Governor Sir Roden Cutler.

Wisden Cricketers Almanack, Sporting Handbooks Ltd, London, 1976 edn, p. 330.

Richard Knott, Cricket Wit and Wisdom, Running Press, PhiladelphiaLondon, 1996, p. 109.

John Arlott, BBC Sports Radio, 1975 Lords Test coverage, 5 August 1975.

Among Doug Walters private collection of newspaper cuttings and repeated in Jonathon Rices One Hundred Lords Tests, Metheun, London, 2001.

Ian Chappell, in conversation with author, Sydney, 2004.

Sir Donald Bradman, in conversation with author, Melbourne, March 1977.

Doctor Donald Beard, in conversation with author, Adelaide, 1977.

Greg Chappell, in email to author, September 2006.

2 Norman Tasker, in email to author, September 2006.

Rodney Cavalier to author, 2008.

John Inverarity, in email to author, 14 August 2006.

Australian Cricket Board secretary Alan Barnes, The Australian, 4 January 1975.

ibid.

NSW and Test team-mate Len Pascoe in email to author, September 2006.

Bob Willis, in telephone conversation with author, May 2007.