Six of CricketWeb’s feature writers have contributed to Patrick Ferriday’s latest book, Masterly Batting. In this first of three extracts Martin and Dave are featured.
This week one of the best writers on the game appears for the first time on CW – and yes the accompanying image is of the somewhat unusual dust jacket of the first edition.
On 12 June 1868 an Aboriginal eleven strode onto the turf at Lord’s to face the MCC, fully ten years before white Australian cricketers ever did. Dave Wilson tells the remarkable story behind the first cricket tour of England by an Australian side.