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Post by kenhiggs on Jan 29, 2024 21:15:09 GMT
Just read Tall Tales..Test Match Special (Jon. Ag. and Phil Tuf.)
Disappointingly unrevealing and repetitive
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Post by oldhamexile on Jan 30, 2024 9:03:42 GMT
Just read Tall Tales..Test Match Special (Jon. Ag. and Phil Tuf.) Disappointingly unrevealing and repetitive Cheers Ken. They do rather churn those tomes out these days, I imagine often in time for the Dad/Brother/Husband who likes cricket Christmas market! |
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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2024 16:34:07 GMT
The best cricket books I find are written by those outside the professional game
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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2024 17:29:06 GMT
Disppearing World by Sclyd Berry
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Post by oldhamexile on May 21, 2024 16:41:20 GMT
I read "That will be England gone" by Michael Henderson a couple of months ago. Didn't take to it at first, he has a flowery style, bit right wing for me and too many excursions into classical music which isn't an interest of mine. But I stuck with it and enjoyed it.
I've been meaning to post about it a while because I know Des is good friends with Dave Snellgrove. Henderson wrote this about Ken Snellgrove (ask Scott Read if you have't heard of him) who I believe was Dave's dad, apologies if I've got that wrong. But it's good writing either way and gives a sense of players who have only been names to me in the past:
"A meat and potato pie can release early memories as sweetly as any tea-soaked madeleine, Ken Snellgrove and John Sullivan, like Pilling, were not stars, but I see them too: Sully with the hunched shoulders of the boxer as he was heaving sixes into the Wilson stand; Snellgrove pushing his cover drives to the boundary with the grace, we thought, of Tom Graveney. Ken Shuttleworth, a fast bowler brimming with the vigour of youth, running in from the sightscreen; Peter Lever hitting Farokh Engineer's gloves from the boundary with hard, flat throws from the strongest right arm in cricket."
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Post by lancsdes on May 21, 2024 16:58:44 GMT
Spot on re the Snellgroves OE and dad and son did manage to play in the same league team. I must read that. I liked John Sullivan too.
I didn’t remember that aspect of Peter Lever ; I remember him bowling the ball in.
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Post by hariseldon on Jun 24, 2024 19:01:42 GMT
There is a small second book stall in the Spitfire Ground and it is worth have a look
I bought Bowled Statham, the authorized biography by Tony Derlien (pub. 1990). It looks like a good read.
Also I brought the 1977 and 1983 Wisden Almanacks.
1977 Wisden reports on Clive Lloyd's West Indies 1976 test series against England.
Hot summer. Test cricket, 1976 style and remembered watching this on telly.
Old Trafford on 10th July:
Lancashire's 1976 season first sentence by John Kay in 1977 Wisden, " Disastrous was the only word that adequately summed up the performances of Lancashire in 1976!"
First sentence of Lancashire's 1982 season by BB, " On the surface Lancashire had a disappointing year"
No change here then.
I saw The Professional Amateur: The Cricketing Life of Bob Barber by Colin Shindler on the stall table. Pick it up, it is a good read!
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