Leslie Hylton, a key member of the first West Indian side to win a Test series, was hanged for murder in 1955. His full story is seldom told so in this feature Cricket Web looks back at his life and times.
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A book that has been sitting on my shelf for a long time, but after reading this review I will dust it off, and if Martin is right I will enjoy this quality offering.
Over the coming months staff members will be looking at their heroes – Martin begins the series with a profile of the Notts Express, Harold Larwood.
The legality of some bowling actions has caused controversy from time to time since the game began. Here we go back nearly half a century to look at the case of Ian Meckiff and how he was treated.
A five star book from a very tough marker. I will certainly be ordering a copy of this one.
The purpose of this article is to have a look at Laker’s approach in order to see just how accurate or otherwise his predictions were and then for the writer to try and project the game forward again, this time, less ambitiously, to 21 years hence.
The story of Harold Larwood is well known. An unassuming and very private man Larwood emerged from the Nottinghamshire coalfields in the 1920’s and went on to become the greatest fast bowler of his generation.
With six months of the year over it seems an opportune moment to have a look at the titles released so far this year that will be candidates for the CW Book of the Year 2009.
It is always nice when you enjoy reading a book, which you imagined was going to be a hard slog. That seems to be the case with Martin and his perusal of Kevin Pietersen.
Read what Martin thought of cricket historian Alan Hill’s biography of the great left armer Tony Lock.