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April21

Golden Minnows in the World Cup 2019

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With just a month to go before it all begins the first publication we have seen on the subject of the 2019 World Cup looks at the stories of the two nations who will start as the competition’s outsiders

April21

Rupert Webb – Goodbye Old Friend

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Rupert Webb was an old fashioned wicketkeeper. He was no mug with the bat, but as he never did quite manage a First Class fifty he couldn’t be considered an all-rounder in the modern sense. His glove work was nonetheless of sufficient quality to see him as his county’s first choice for the best part […]

April14

Cricket’s Second Golden Age

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Gerald Howat wrote a number of cricket books back in the 1980s, only one of which we have previously looked at. This week David Taylor moves towards redressing the balance by reviewing Howat’s look at the game in the inter-war years

April07

Boyhood Hero

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Two new books have emerged from the pen of Max Bonnell in as many months, and it seems this one is every bit as enjoyable as the last

April07

Heir To Adventure

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Heir to Adventure amounts to the autobiography of a man who captained Kent for a single summer and played one Test for England in 1921, which is the reason why we are reviewing a book with less than a page of cricket content

March31

Rescuing Don Bradman from Splendid Isolation

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It is more than seventy years since Don Bradman played his last Test innings, and approaching twenty years since his passing, but the interest in his remarkable batting record shows no sign of diminishing. This week Martin reviews the latest in a very long line of books published on the subject of ‘The Don’