Tales from a Long Room
Those were the golden days: WG and Spofforth were locked in mortal combat at Lords; MCC rule held sway throughout the Empire; and the world had not...
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Those were the golden days: WG and Spofforth were locked in mortal combat at Lords; MCC rule held sway throughout the Empire; and the world had not yet been darkened by the spectre of aluminium bats, Geoffrey Boycott and underarm bowling; The brigadier remembers it all By the flickering firelight of a long room, he takes us back to some surprisingly little known incidents and characters from cricket's heyday. It's all here - the MCC's ill-fated test against a pygmy XI, Scott's and Amundsen's historic match at the South Pole, the inspiring story of Mendip-Hughes, Somerset's most distinguished one, legged off-spinner; and, of course, the promising but tragically short career in first-class cricket of the late Queen Victoria.
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publication:1982
- Publisher:Arrow
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- Language:en-GB
- ISBN10:0099266202
- ISBN13:9780099266204
- kindle Asin:0099266202
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