All-India and Down Under by Richard Knott

All-India and Down Under by Richard Knott

All-India and Down Under is the dramatic story of two cricket tours undertaken in the aftermath of the Second World War. For seven years the war had put the careers of England’s cricketers on hold. Then, in 1946, England played three Tests against ‘All-India’. However, it proved to be the last such tour: by mid-1947, Indian partition had cut the country in two, a process that was violent and bloody. While the tourists were in England, struggling in a cold, wet summer, their own country was in turmoil. As that tour drew to a close in September, the MCC sent a party of war-weary cricketers to Australia to play the first Ashes series since 1938. The English were ill-prepared, some scarcely out of uniform, while others carried the physical and mental scars of the war years. For the aging captain, Walter Hammond, it would prove a tour too far. The book follows the cricketing drama of both tours amid the political uncertainty of the time, with a Labour government struggling to disentangle Britain from its Empire.

"The book is so well written and, whilst All-India and Down Under: Peace, Partition and the Game of Cricket is Knott’s first on cricket, let us hope there are more to come"

-- Martin Chandler * CricketWeb.net *

Richard Knott has been an actor, teacher, civil servant and a management consultant. He has been writing since 2005 and has authored six books of modern history, including Black Night for Bomber Command, The Sketchbook War and The Secret War Against the Arts. His first poetry collection, Perfect Day, was published in 2020. Despite living in Somerset, he supports Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.

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ISBN 13	9781801503884
ISBN 10	1801503885
Titel	All-India and Down Under
Autor	Richard Knott
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-03-06
Seitenanzahl	256
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