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Contents
ОглавлениеLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
1 The Lost Century of Cricket
2 The Early Patrons
3 The Later Patrons
4 The Men Who Made Cricket
5 Cricket Spreads: Early Roots
6 The Round-Arm Rebellion
7 The Mandarins of Lord’s
8 The Rise and Fall of Single-Wicket
9 The Missionary and the Mercenaries
10 Wider Still and Wider: Cricket Goes Abroad
11 The Birth of the Ashes
12 The Boom in Leisure: Competition for Cricket
13 The Cricketers and the Counties
14 The Chroniclers and the Scribes
15 The Autocrats
16 The Grand Old Man and the Backroom Boy
17 Your English Summer’s Done
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX 1: ‘Articles of Agreement by & between His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Brodrick (for two Cricket Matches) concluded the Eleventh of July 1727’
APPENDIX 2: Rules of the White Conduit Club
APPENDIX 3: ‘Laws for Single Wicket’ (1831)
APPENDIX 4: Important Single-Wicket Matches 1800–1848
APPENDIX 5: W.J. Prowse, ‘In Memoriam, Alfred Mynn 1807–1861’
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
