Cricketing Allsorts by Stephen Chalke
A sequel to the award-winning 'The Way It Was', `Cricketing Allsorts' is a collection of 53 articles, written for a range of publications. There is an essay, written for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, on how English cricket survived during World War Two, and another, written specially for this volume, on how county cricket started again after World War One. There is the story of a Middlesex/Somerset match in 1947, obituaries that appeared in The Independent, celebrations of great Test performances by Herbert Sutcliffe and Jim Laker, the life stories of Surrey's Bernie Constable and Sussex's Rupert Webb, some memorable matches in the history of the county championship ... and much more.
Stephen Chalke has been exploring cricket's past since the mid-1990s, mostly as an oral historian, interviewing former players and administrators. His first book, `Runs in the Memory', a portrait of county cricket in the 1950s, was Frank Keating's Sports Book of the Year in the Guardian, and he has followed this with several award-winning titles. `At the Heart of English Cricket' - based on the life and memories of the former administrator Geoffrey Howard - was The Cricket Society Book of the Year while his collaborations with Bob Appleyard (`No Coward Soul') and Tom Cartwright (`The Flame Still Burns') were both the Wisden Book of the Year. For ten years he was a regular contributor to the Wisden Cricketer magazine, and he has also written for The Times and the Independent. A collection of his articles, `The Way It Was', won the National Sporting Club's Cricket Book of the Year award, and his history of the county championship, `Summer's Crown', a book sponsored by the England and Wales Cricket Board, was the Cricket Writers' Club's Book of the Year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999655839 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999655834 |
| Title | Cricketing Allsorts |
| Author | Stephen Chalke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fairfield Books |
| Year published | 2018-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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