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  1. neville cardus

    A Pre-War Line-up

    Grace (skipper) Trumper Ranji Hobbs Hill Woolley Giffen Blackham (stumper) Spofforth Barnes Peate Briggs (twelfthie) Beal (manager) Clarke (patron) Ulyate (stalker)
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    Sid Barnes

    You can't help but love him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ92vHHuDhU
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    The greatest-ever left-arm finger-spinner

    This was, fifty years ago, one of the most forcibly-hammered debates in the cricketing world, but, after Yorkshire stopped mass-producing the subject-matter, it faded conspicuously into the background. In true CricketWeb style, however, let's have ourselves a go at reviving it.
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    An ancient anecdote

    Billy Bates was a charming, singular man who differed markedly from his dowdy Yorkshire colleagues. He was a shameless metrosexual in a time when the term was unknown; indeed, so well-dressed and -groomed was he that his myrmidons christened him "The Duke". He was, as is most of his dapper...
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    Happy Jack

    In the Melbourne Test of 1882, having just launched another typically categorical drive to the boundary, George Ulyett shook his bat about vigorously in front of him, took a few steps away from the wicket and then held up the offending willow for all to see. The following dialogue ensued...
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    Spofforth & Lockwood: A Common Devilry

    "No matter how long I had batted or how many I had made, I could never trust Lockwood; at any moment he would let go the unplayable ball, perhaps not for hours, but you could never be sure." -- Ranji (quoted in Cardus, Neville: English Cricket [Collins, London, 1945], p. 40) "Dr. Grace is...
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    W.H. Cooper

    Has anyone else here noticed that most enchanting reference on Cricket Archive to William Cooper's being a "Leg-break and googly" bowler? (For the record, he played his last first-class game as far back into antediluvian yore as 1886/87, long before Bernard Bosanquet's nefarious...
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    The fiercest of the Graces

    I've seen it declared on numerous occasions that, compared to E.M., W.G. Grace was little more than an overgrown patsy. However, having read (and, thus far, enjoyed) most of Simon Rae's commanding biography of the latter, I'm beginning to believe that, of all the Graces, it's Fred who ought to...
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    W.G. never wore a box...

    ...although he made dead-sure that the accident-prone Croome did before facing up to Tom Richardson. Interesting, no?
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    Peate

    In the 1882 Australians' match against an England XI at Harrowgate, Ted Peate arrived at the wicket and was soon driving the ball down the ground to Alec Bannerman at mid-off. As the ball made its way towards the fielder, Peate decided that this was the perfect moment to indulge himself a bit...
  11. neville cardus

    Billy Bates

    Over the course of a spot of research in which I was happily engaging myself today, I came across this most charmingly illiterate letter, written in 1880, from Billy Bates to the Todmorden Cricket Club: ************** Lascelles Hall Hall April 28/1880 Sir I ham oping for engagments for the...
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    The 1882 Sammy Jones run-out had a precedent

    It was W.G. Grace's none-too-chivalrous act in running out Sammy Jones in the 1882 Test Match which stirred Fred Spofforth into doing the utterly mindboggling and bowling England out for just 77, thus clinching for Australia perhaps the most celebrated victory in all of the game's great history...
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    Captain Henry Holden

    When the 1882 Australian visitors went in for lunch at Trent Bridge, during their tour fixture against Notts, it was soon discovered that no lunch had been provided. It was, of course, the long-established convention for the hosts to look after the amateur "gentlemen" cricketers in respect of...
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    Fixed Matches - A List

    It came to mind just now that it could be very interesting to gather up a list of top-flight cricket matches through history under which legitimate doubt was or has been cast. A small number from the primordial past which spring to mind instantaneously are listed below: 1. I seem to recall...
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