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LIST 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

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