More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years
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The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game’s social origins.All his life John Major has loved cricket. In ‘More Than a Game’ he examines it from its origins up to the coming of the First World War. Along the way he considers the crucial role of the wealthy patrons who gambled huge sums on early matches; the truth behind the legends that have grown up around the famous Hambledon Club; changes in rules and techniques, including the transition from underarm to overarm bowling; the long-standing, but often blurred, distinction between 'gentlemen' and 'players'; the coming of the MCC and its role as the supreme arbiter of the game; the spread of cricket throughout the British Empire; and the emergence of the county game and international competition.It is a story rich in anecdote and colourful characters. Many of the great names from the 'Golden Age' of cricket – C.B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji, 'Demon' Spofforth and of course the towering figure of W.G. Grace – are still well-known today. But long before then the game already had its stars: men like the Kentish innkeeper's son 'Lumpy' Stevens, who played at the highest level until he was nearly sixty; 'Silver Billy' Beldham, who was taught how to play by a gingerbread baker; the notoriously avaricious and ill-tempered Lord Frederic Beauclerk, a direct descendant of Charles II and Nell Gwynne; and the mighty 'Lion of Kent' Alfred Mynn.

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John Major. More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

MORE THAN A GAME

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

The Lost Century of Cricket

The Early Patrons

The Later Patrons

The Men Who Made Cricket

Cricket Spreads: Early Roots

The Round-Arm Rebellion

The Mandarins of Lord’s

The Rise and Fall of Single-Wicket

The Missionary and the Mercenaries

Wider Still and Wider: Cricket Goes Abroad

The Birth of the Ashes

The Boom in Leisure: Competition for Cricket

The Cricketers and the Counties

The Chroniclers and the Scribes

The Autocrats

The Grand Old Man and the Backroom Boy

Your English Summer’s Done

Afterword

‘Articles of Agreement by & between His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Brodrick (for two Cricket Matches) concluded the Eleventh of July 1727’

Rules of the White Conduit Club

Laws for Single Wicket (1831)

Important Single-Wicket Matches 1800–1848

‘In Memoriam, Alfred Mynn 1807–1861’

Acknowledgements

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher

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To Norma, Elizabeth, James and Luke

PREFACE

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* At a conference at Hampton Court between Anglicans and Puritans in January 1604, James backed the Anglican bishops. Shortly afterwards, a hundred Puritan ministers were dismissed from their livings.

* The children were William Martin, Richard Martin Junior and Raphe West, playing with two friends, Edward Hartley and Richard Slaughter.

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