{"product_id":"hedley-verity-book-alan-hill-9781840183023","title":"Hedley Verity","description":"The name of Hedley Verity, the master bowler of unyielding menace, is one to be cherished more than 50 years after his death. Allan Hill tells the story of a magnificent sporting obsession in this reissue of the first full-length biography of a revered cricketer. Verity headed the English first-class bowling averages in his first  season with Yorkshire and twice took ten wickets in an innings in  consecutive seasons. Overall, his mesmeric left-hand spin yielded 1,956 wickets, including 144 for England, in less than ten  years. The book, winner of the Cricket Society's Jubilee Literary award in 1986, contains a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman (whom  Verity twice dismissed at Lord's in June 1934 to mastermind England's only victory over Australia at cricket's 'headquarters' in a century). It also includes a revealing memoir of Verity's boyhood and an Australian tour journal (1932-33) kept by the Yorkshireman for his relatives and friends. The story ends with a graphic account of Verity's ultimate heroism during the Second World War and is followed by a full statistical analysis of his career.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505607221521,"sku":"GOR003401525","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52460036522257,"sku":"GOR004658419","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1840183020.jpg?v=1750802397","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/hedley-verity-book-alan-hill-9781840183023","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}