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Quiz for the MASTER CRICKET BOOK BUFF

fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
After the County History clue I'd have said Peter Wynne-Thomas but cant be him as you don't appear to have reviewed him
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Passed away in 1998 - the last book of his prodigious output was "Votes for Cricket" which was about members of the Houses of Westminster with cricketing connections - one of his better books with some curious nuggets of information in it - the use of the word "Votes" in the title is a tad misleading as members of the upper house are dealt with too.
 
archie mac

archie mac

International Coach
SJS said:
Yes and if he is not alive, I plead ignorance :)
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fredfertang said:
Passed away in 1998 - the last book of his prodigious output was "Votes for Cricket" which was about members of the Houses of Westminster with cricketing connections - one of his better books with some curious nuggets of information in it - the use of the word "Votes" in the title is a tad misleading as members of the upper house are dealt with too.
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:laugh: I thought he was, but I could not think who else it could be:)
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
archie mac said:
Cricket?
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No.

Anyway here it is.



For the Love of the Game
An Oral History of Cricket​

Based on Interviews with cricketers from Nyren, Daft and Lilleewhite to Eddie Hemmings.

For the Interview with Jack Hobbs alone, it is priceless.
 
neville cardus

neville cardus

International Debutant
SJS said:
Based on Interviews with cricketers from Nyren, Daft and Lilleewhite to Eddie Hemmings.
For the Interview with Jack Hobbs alone, it is priceless.[/FONT]
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Sounds a gem. Does it offer any interviews with players from the pre-Golden Age epoch?
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Of all the English athletic games, none, perhaps, presents, so fine a scope for bringing into full and constant play the qualities both of mind and body as that of Cricket. A man who is essentially stupid will not make a fine cricketer; neither will he who is essentially non-active. He must be active in all his faculties - he must be active in mind to prepare for every advantage, and active in eye and limb, to avail himself of those advantages. He must be cool tempered, and in the best sense of the word, MANLY; for he must be able to endure fatigue, and to make light of pain; since like all atheltic sports, Cricket is not unattended with danger, resulting from inattention or inexperience; the accidents most comonly attendant upon the players at cricket arising from unwatchfulness or slowness of eye. A short-sighted person is as unfit to become a cricketer, as one deaf would be to discriminate the most delicate gradations and varieties of tone; added to which, added to which he must be in constant jeopardy of serious injury.​
This is a passage from a famous cricket book written by a legend.

This particular bit is from the introduction and not written by the author of the book.

As usual, you have to guess the name of the book, the author and the subject of the book.
 
neville cardus

neville cardus

International Debutant
SJS said:
Yes it does of course you could stump me by defining the Golden Age as between 300 to 100 BC :)
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I have always felt that the game never attained such heights as in the Thirteenth Century B.C., when one of Nausicaa's maids fumbled what could only have been a scorching cover drive. Admittedly, the game was afflicted by cretins even then: a streaking Odysseus provided the first example of "match abandoned".
 
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