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neville cardus

neville cardus

International Debutant
Making the ball buzz

Bradman once likened the experience of facing Bill O'Reilly to facing "a swarm of bees," but I don't know that he had in mind the effect attributed to Mailey and Turner. The latter, according to CB Fry, "made the ball spin like a humming-top; you could hear the ball buzz in the air as it travelled from his hand." I remember Tony Stubbs telling me similar stories about a first-class Indian bowler whose name escapes me, and I'm pretty sure I've heard it said of others as well. Has anyone ever experienced this? Better still, has anyone any corroborating footage? And does anyone know who that Indian might be?
 
C

Cricket Scribe

Cricket Spectator
Five successive FIVE STAR reviews for MONTY'S DOUBLE: the superb new thriller by Neil Sambrook - where an English cricketer always has a trick up his sleeve.

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neville cardus

neville cardus

International Debutant
neville cardus said:
Bradman once likened the experience of facing Bill O'Reilly to facing "a swarm of bees," but I don't know that he had in mind the effect attributed to Mailey and Turner. The latter, according to CB Fry, "made the ball spin like a humming-top; you could hear the ball buzz in the air as it travelled from his hand." I remember Tony Stubbs telling me similar stories about a first-class Indian bowler whose name escapes me, and I'm pretty sure I've heard it said of others as well. Has anyone ever experienced this? Better still, has anyone any corroborating footage? And does anyone know who that Indian might be?
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Don't know why I've posted this here. Will make a new thread out of it.
 
S.Kennedy

S.Kennedy

International Vice-Captain
Reading The Golden Age of Cricket: 1890 - 1914 by David Frith. The photos in it - it really is more a photographic book - are stunning.
 
54321

54321

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Has anyone read 'The Demon and The Lobster'? looks like an interesting book which covers Charles Kortwright and one of the last lob bowlers, Digby Jephson. Also does anyone know of any other books which cover Kortwright himself, as his story really interests me considering he was poised as the fastest bowler of his time and never played an international.
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
54321 said:
Has anyone read 'The Demon and The Lobster'? looks like an interesting book which covers Charles Kortwright and one of the last lob bowlers, Digby Jephson. Also does anyone know of any other books which cover Kortwright himself, as his story really interests me considering he was poised as the fastest bowler of his time and never played an international.
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There's "Korty, The Legend Explained" by Charles Sale
 
M

Midwinter

State Captain
Mitchell Johnson - Resilient

Autobiography, told in the first person.

The writing is nothing special but the story is interesting.

Interesting to learn of his family life growing up, that he didn't take up cricket till mid-late teens, played tennis as a kid.

Comes across as you see him on the tele or on the radio, a likable good-natured, easygoing bloke, but shy,naive, not a deep thinker.

Worth a read

:)
 
neville cardus

neville cardus

International Debutant
Was reading Old Ebor's obituary of EM Grace today, and learnt from it that he almost certainly had notes prepared for Shaw-style biographies of both "The Coroner" and Bob Thoms. The excitement of such discoveries is almost always tempered by the realisation that these materials are probably lost.
 
mr_mister

mr_mister

Hall of Fame Member
Am currently reading Fingletons cricket crisis. His Bradman criticism is a bit overblown, theres a lot of praise for him in there amongst a few negative stories
 
Marius

Marius

International Debutant
Reading The Test by Nathan Leamon.

He used to be England's performance analyst, and this book is set during the Fifth Test of an Ashes series, with the captain of England (only appointed due to an injury to the regular skipper) as the narrator.

Really enjoying and one of the better cricket books I've ever read, I daresay.
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Dan said:
Just came across a copy of each Beldam/Fry. What's a reasonable price for each?
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Much depends on what sort of nick they're in - Bowlers tends to be a bit pricier - if they were in top condition a dealer would want £250 and £200, but condition is everything and for something that was clean and complete but has some faults then half that and rebinds or damaged copies even less - unless it's a really classy rebind and they match, but even so they are not always easy to shift. Although you virtually never see it they did come with a very flimsy and basic dust jacket back in the day - if they still had those then that would up it
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member



Ended up as $180 apiece, so pretty much £100. Pretty reasonable condition I guess.

Kinda can't believe that I actually own these tbh. Grabbing a copy of Great Batsmen was probably the end-goal for collecting cricket books, and I've got it with my first serious purchase.
 
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