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In other happy news, I see that John Lazenby's new book on the 1878 Australians is out tomorrow. I loved his effort on his grandfather JR Mason.- neville cardus
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Cricket Books
Sounds like it. The authors were on the World Cricket Show last week, and gave a very good account of themselves. And Gideon Haigh contributes both the introduction and a chapter. So I'd say yes.- neville cardus
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Doesn't seem we have a review yet of WG's History of a Hundred Centuries. I'm coming to the end of it, and would be happy to contribute one.- neville cardus
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I really don't think any of Perry's "suggestions" need addressing. The man is a fraud and a fantasist, and a godawful prose stylist. How he seduced Don Bradman I've no idea.- neville cardus
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Hi, Max. Emailed you last month -- but not sure you saw -- to let you know that Currency Lads eventually found its way to me safe and sound. Many thanks again.- neville cardus
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I don't know about all that. What I can say is that, a year ago, he showed immense kindness to this cricket fan: https://twitter.com/TelfordVice/status/414018109607931904 Rodney- neville cardus
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Actually, I fear the pickings are slim. Telford Vice is just about the only other socialist I know who writes about cricket (although, since he's never to my knowledge written about his politics, even he seems rather a stretch). Tariq Ali, the reactionary revolutionary, contributed some...- neville cardus
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Was pleasantly surprised to find an item about his death on my favourite left-wing news site: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-irreplaceable-mike-marqusee/ I had no idea Marqusee was a socialist. Being well to the left of CLR James, and bridling at the idea that cricket is a column of the...- neville cardus
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Always thought that episode was worth a book. One of the great early South African cricket scribblers -- either Duffus or Greyvenstein -- wrote something beautiful about it somewhere. Thanks for sharing.- neville cardus
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Oh, do try to keep up. The OP is mine, and no reference is made in it to sledging. I maintain that you misinterpreted it, and that you had no basis for so doing. And now, to refute me, you quote freely from Martin Crowe. Do I really need to explain why this won't get you anywhere? When I said...- neville cardus
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I'm interested in coherent opinions, and in those opinions which are not morally warped -- to say nothing of opinions whose authors are good enough carefully to peruse my own before issuing sulky responses to them. I did not compare cricket to warfare. What I wrote was this: "You look upon...- neville cardus
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Shudder
Don't be silly. You look upon cricket, to all appearances, as I look upon warfare. If you think that such filth as I've quoted has any place in the game -- in any mere game -- and if you genuinely suppose that it deserves no more than a slippery description like "comments," I can't say I'm...- neville cardus
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Since apparently you believe that the OP was about sledging, I shouldn't be surprised in the least to find that you've misinterpreted Crowe's efforts, too.- neville cardus
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Cricket Books
In other great news, fellow readers, I picked up WG's The History of a Hundred Centuries today. All I'm lacking now is his Little Book. Affordable copies do not exist.- neville cardus
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Leafing idly this morning through David Hopps's anthology of cricketing quotations, I lit upon the following: "Remember, with those speedsters bowling at 95mph, cricket can kill!" Australian TV advert for Packer Circus, 1975. "I want to hit you Bailey. I want to hit you over the heart." Peter...- neville cardus
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No. Not okay. And not true either. You could and should discover all this for yourself.- neville cardus
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What happened to the review section's RSS feed?- neville cardus
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