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  1. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Whereabouts are you based? I could have a rummage through the catalogue of your local library.
  2. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Try Tony Lewis's Double Century: Two Hundred Years of the MCC. Apart from anything else, it's a very good-looking volume. Warner's Lord's might also be handy. Apologies for seeing your message so late.
  3. neville cardus

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    What do we think of Gilbert, Charlie Connelly's just-published novelisation of WG's twilight years? I'm torn myself.
  4. neville cardus

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    I disagree. Cricket ought to have been more selective: It's let down by the inclusion of some very banal correspondence. Beyond a Boundary has the advantage of being a coherent and directed essay.
  5. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    It sure does. I'd recommend reading it alongside Derek Birley's sometimes misguided, sometimes spot-on criticism in The Willow Wand.
  6. neville cardus

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    G. Derek West's Twelve Days of Grace and Six More Days of Grace are first-rate. There's also some lively, epoch-vivifying stuff in Harry East's Cricket is for Fun and Laughter at the Wicket.
  7. neville cardus

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    Beldam's book (the source of those photographs) is out of copyright, so feel free. :-)
  8. neville cardus

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    "On the occasion of my benefit match at Old Trafford, Manchester, in 1886, a number of boys were offering for sale copies of a booklet giving particulars of my career. My mother, who came over from her home at Ramsbottom to witness the last day’s play, kept being accosted by these boys on her...
  9. neville cardus

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    Thanks, Martin. Wasn't aware he was based in Melbourne. Will be on it!
  10. neville cardus

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    Whereas I'm off to Melbourne and Adelaide next month, and would very much appreciate a few tips on the second-hand market over there. Archie?
  11. neville cardus

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    Exactly. It makes no sense to dismiss someone's ability to do something that he hasn't had the opportunity to do. The absence of the relevant data in Bradman's case is a shortcoming or limitation of the analysis, not of Bradman. He shouldn't suffer for it.
  12. neville cardus

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    Nor me. I'm put off by the way he uses his "right of response" as a vulgar advertisement, and as a chance to pretend that he's read Henry Miller. (He'd know, had he opened The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, that the line runs thus: "The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of...
  13. neville cardus

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    Really, he shouldn't be allowed to get away with claiming that you quoted him out of context, or that you misrepresented his findings. If he wants to make that charge, he should furnish examples. If he can't, he should be made to retract it.
  14. neville cardus

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    There's no arguing with a True Believer, but Mr Fernandez's argument is easy to refute: If Bradman is less great than Tendulkar by mere virtue of the epoch in which he plied his trade -- i.e. through no fault or foible of his own -- then it stands to reason that Tendulkar would be less great...
  15. neville cardus

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    Gawd, I miss London bookstores. Go wild.
  16. neville cardus

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    The Cricketer's "Bowler's Lot" series, to which Tayfield was contributing, turns out to be one of the most diverting that magazine has ever published. Sonny Ramadhin, for example, bars no holds. Hear him: I choose Lord’s as my best performance because what happened in the second innings at...
  17. neville cardus

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    I think we can safely conclude that Tayfield was no writer. But he does make me laugh out loud (and then feel very guilty for having done so) at this passage: "Last man in was Blair, the New Zealand opening bowler. Earlier in the day, he had received the very sad news that his fiancée had been...
  18. neville cardus

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    I don't, I'm afraid. Didn't know that such a thing existed! I was planning to digitise my copies to make them word-searchable. Where is one available?
  19. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    No need. I have the full run for that year. :-) Which issue? Thanks, Martin. UPDATE: Found it!
  20. neville cardus

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    I doubt it's that one. Rob Steen tells us here that he covered the 1958/59 Ashes series. But he doesn't say for whom. The NLA archive suggests that it wasn't an Australian paper, and the standard British archives turn up nothing either. Bizarre, really, how little we know about him. I can't...

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