Cricket: A Modern Anthology

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Jonathan Agnew. Cricket: A Modern Anthology

About the Book

About the Author

CRICKET. A Modern Anthology. Jonathan Agnew

The Illustrations. Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Foreword Rt Hon. Sir John Major KG CH

Preface

THE GREAT CONTROVERSIES

Chapter 1

DONALD BRADMAN. Body-Line

Could Body-line be Mastered?

HAROLD LARWOOD. Duncan Hamilton. Adelaide: January 1933

THE BOWLING CONTROVERSY. Text of the cables

BY THE EDITOR OF WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK. Sydney J. Southerton

DOUGLAS JARDINE. Christopher Douglas

18 JUNE 1934. SHIFTING THE FIELDSMEN

THE BASIL D’OLIVEIRA AFFAIR. Basil D’Oliveira

THE OBITUARY OF BASIL D’OLIVEIRA. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack

WORLD SERIES CRICKET. Sir Derek Birley

TONY GREIG. David Tossell. Grovel!

HANSIE CRONJE. Paul Nixon

MICHAEL ATHERTON. Martin Johnson

A furore that has muddied reputations

Media pressure puts the squeeze on Atherton

Atherton to fight on as England’s captain

England find the steel for re-building

BOOKIE. Ed Hawkins

SACHIN TENDULKAR. Vaibhav Purandare

SPOT-FIXING. Gideon Haigh. Now What?

ANDY FLOWER AND HENRY OLONGA. Steve James ‘Don’t Come To Zimbabwe Or Your Players Will Be Living In Fear For The Rest Of Your Lives.’

Issued 9.30 a.m. February 10, 2003, at the start of Zimbabwe’s opening World Cup match against Namibia

THE GREATEST TEST MATCHES

Chapter 2

TIED TEST. Richie Benaud

JOHN SNOW. Ray Robinson. Bouncers and Beer Cans

GUBBY ALLEN. Denzil Batchelor. The Brisbane Miracle

ROD MARSH AND DENNIS LILLEE. Rob Steen. The bet

BOTHAM AND WILLIS. Mike Brearley

THE PROFESSIONAL

Chapter 3

JACK HOBBS. Leo McKinstry

HEDLEY VERITY. Max Davidson. A Very English War Hero

FRED TRUEMAN. John Arlott. Father of the Man

20 DECEMBER 1991. ARLOTT’S DELIVERY

FRED TRUEMAN. Chris Waters. Bollocks To You, Mate

JIM LAKER. Amol Rajan. The Second Flourish

28 JANUARY 1955. STUMPED

29 JANUARY 1955. WICKETS OR STUMPS

GEOFFREY BOYCOTT. On Batting

ABOUT CAPTAINCY. Mike Brearley

IAN BOTHAM. Simon Wilde

PHIL TUFNELL. Four Blondes

Debut against the West Indies

SIMON HUGHES. Bouncers

MATTHEW HAYDEN. Alfie and Me

GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS

Chapter 4

THE OLDEST FIXTURE. Geoffrey Moorhouse. July 15 Lord’s – Eton v Harrow

SLIPLESS IN SETTLE. Harry Pearson

ANTARCTICA. Harry Thompson

THE NEW SEASON. Marcus Berkmann. April

ZIMMER MEN. Marcus Berkmann

FATTY BATTER. Michael Simkins. Stumped

Shot

JOINT SECRETARY SWAMI. R. Chandrasekar

Indo-Pak Relations Hit a New Low

Chaos

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE BAT

Chapter 5

CRICKET’S EARLY COUNTY MATCHES. Sir John Major

PRESS BOX. R. C. Robertson-Glasgow

THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS. Neville Cardus. July 1923

DONALD BRADMAN. Richie Benaud

5 AUGUST 1961. RICHIE BENAUD

INDIAN SUMMER. John Arlott. Record Days: The Oval: Banerjee and Sarwate

S. Banerjee

C. T. Sarwate

CRICKET AND THE TALIBAN. Timeri N. Murari. The Stadium

CRICKET AND THE MEDIA. Gideon Haigh. The Pantomime Horse

JOINING TEST MATCH SPECIAL. Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Picture Section

Footnotes

Acknowledgements

ALSO BY JONATHAN AGNEW

Read on for an extract from Thanks, Johnners. Out now

ONE. The Guest Speaker

Copyright

About the Publisher

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“It would be a great shame if cricket writing became exclusively the domain of former first-class cricketers. While we bring insight, knowledge and experience of the game that can only be gained from actually having been out there and done it, there is much more to cricket writing than that.”

Indeed there is, and who better to present a new collection of the best cricket writing of the modern era than today’s ‘voice of cricket’. As a young boy watching his newly-discovered cricketing heroes on a grainy black-and-white television, Jonathan Agnew quickly fell in love with the game and went on to pursue a career as a professional player who represented his country before becoming one of the outstanding broadcasters of his generation.

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Later that day, there occurred the fateful visit by the England manager, Pelham Warner, to the Australians’ dressing room, where he was rebuffed by Woodfull with perhaps the most famous quote in cricket: ‘I don’t want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there; one is trying to play cricket and the other is not.’ Adding, ‘This game is too good to be spoilt. It’s time some people got out of it.’ Warner, it was reported, was physically shaken by the admonishment and was seen hurrying away close to tears.

On the third day, Bert Oldfield was hit a sickening blow on the head that caused a fracture – although, again, the ball was a legitimate non-bodyline delivery that he top-edged. Oldfield later admitted that it was a mistake entirely of his own making; nevertheless, the crowd was yet again incensed.

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