After Australia and South Africa we take things slightly out of chronological order by looking at accounts of Test series between England and India

One of the things we want to do with this blog is post our thoughts on some of our favourite writers, and Alan Ross is certainly one of those

Sadly this is a story that, as tour books have gone out of fashion, is likely to be at its end

Back in 1991 West Country journalist Richard Walsh published a poem, written by John Arlott, about a famous century that Somerset opener Harold Gimblett scored on debut in 1935. There were 135 copies of the poem, 110 of them in card covers, numbered and signed by Arlott (who was to pass away later that year). […]