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  1. neville cardus

    Throwing the cricket ball

    Especially since he did it without a warm-up, and after a months-long sea journey. Bonnor is a character just screaming for a full-length biography.
  2. neville cardus

    Throwing the cricket ball

    Bradstock, in fairness, isn't just any forty-eight-year-old. He has a plausible claim to a number of throwing records. But your point's taken. Now make it on Twitter.
  3. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'm going to be terribly imaginative and kick things off with #throwthatball. If you have as much time on your hands as most CricketWeb users appear to have, or even if you don't, please go mad with it. P'rhaps we could put a feature up on the main page and, if it works, make this website...
  4. neville cardus

    Throwing the cricket ball

    I'm going to be terribly imaginative and kick things off with #throwthatball. If you have as much time on your hands as most CricketWeb users appear to have, please go mad with it.
  5. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Posted this as a separate thread, but I suspect the most sympathetic ears are to be found on this one. I repeat myself, then: Old news now, but new to me, and apparently it hasn't yet been mentioned here: Roald Bradstock, the veteran Olympian, has broken Robert Percival's disputed century-old...
  6. neville cardus

    Throwing the cricket ball

    Old news now, but new to me, and apparently it hasn't yet been mentioned here: Roald Bradstock, the veteran Olympian, has broken Robert Percival's disputed century-old record: On November 9, 2010 at the ripe old age of 48, I attempted to break the most unbreakable of records for a fifth and...
  7. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    My conscience and my sleeping patterns permit me nothing more than a hint or an allusion. ;-)
  8. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Cool, cool. I shan't enter myself. (I'm unofficially a member of the review team here, so that would be unseemly, and anyway I have a copy already.) But I suppose I were to give a helping hand to an eager correspondent: Would that be okay?
  9. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    There's more than three -- I count six at least -- so presumably you mean "any three"? Not sure what good that'll do you.
  10. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    There's more than three -- I count six at least -- so presumably you mean "any three"?
  11. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    It's astonishing, reading his old Manchester Guardian reports, to see how often he throws in illustrative sketches. If ever there was a cricket thinker who needn't have looked further than words, you would think it was he.
  12. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    He is? My respect for the old functionary has never been higher.
  13. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'm sure I can. Will do some rummaging.
  14. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    The unwritten biography I most want to read is of Frank Roro. I'd have a go myself, but I lack the linguistic versatility to get anywhere with the archives. André Odendaal would be the obvious man to do it, but he seems to prefer a broader canvass.
  15. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Thanks, Max. That's even better than I was hoping for. Methinks we should lobby the ACS.
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Thanks. It's a fixture on my to-read list now, too. The only thing I'd add is that Haigh's contribution is not native to that book; it appeared first in The Nightwatchman for July 2013, and later in his Uncertain Corridors collection.
  17. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Almost done. But would be keen to know (since I think the fact would be impressive) who held the record for the most first-class centuries when WG began his career, and who sat in second place, with how much, when he ended it. Any ideas?
  18. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Re: our discussion of some two or three pages back, this is well worth the pound it'll cost you. Although I knew that he ran once for office, I wasn't aware that John Arlott was as passionate about his politics, or that his politics were so interesting and agreeable, as "John Arlott: Cricket's...
  19. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    That's a shame -- and disappointing when we remember that Test of Time was partially a travelogue. He did the archive-combing, jaunting-through-Australia thing very well there.
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I downloaded the electronic version last night. Early signs are very good. I'm afraid I won't be saying the same about WG. You really should listen to that interview I recommended.

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