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Contents

About the Book

About the Author

Title Page

Dedication

The Illustrations

Foreword by Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH

Preface

Chapter 1: The Great Controversies

Sir Donald Bradman: Farewell to Cricket

Duncan Hamilton: Harold Larwood

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1934: The Bowling Controversy – Text of the Cables

Sydney J. Southerton’s Analysis

Christopher Douglas: Jardine, A Spartan Cricketer

Basil D’Oliveira: The Basil D’Oliveira Affair

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2012: The Obituary of Basil D’Oliveira

Sir Derek Birley: A Social History of English Cricket

David Tossell: Grovel! The Story and Legacy of the Summer of 1976

Paul Nixon: Keeping Quiet: The Autobiography

Martin Johnson: Can’t Bat, Can’t Bowl, Can’t Field

Ed Hawkins: Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld

Vaibhav Purandare: Sachin Tendulkar: The Definitive Biography

Gideon Haigh: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and its Discontents

Steve James: The Plan: How Fletcher and Flower Transformed English Cricket

Chapter 2: The Greatest Test Matches

Richie Benaud: A Tale of Two Tests: With Some Thoughts on Captaincy

Ray Robinson: The Wildest Tests

Denzil Batchelor: Games of a Lifetime

Rob Steen: 500–1: The Miracle of Headingley ’81

Mike Brearley: The Art of Captaincy

Chapter 3: The Professional

Leo McKinstry: Jack Hobbs: England’s Greatest Cricketer

Max Davidson: We’ll Get ’Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century That Changed Everything

John Arlott: Fred: Portrait of a Fast Bowler

Chris Waters: Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography

Amol Rajan: Twirlymen: The History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Bowlers

Geoffrey Boycott: Boycott On Cricket

Mike Brearley: The Art of Captaincy

Simon Wilde: Ian Botham: The Power and the Glory

Phil Tufnell: The Autobiography: What Now?

Simon Hughes: A Lot of Hard Yakka

Matthew Hayden: Standing My Ground

Chapter 4: Gentlemen and Players

Geoffrey Moorhouse: The Best Loved Game

Harry Pearson: Slipless in Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket

Harry Thompson: Penguins Stopped Play

Marcus Berkmann: Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket

Marcus Berkmann: Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer

Michael Simkins: Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (Then Ruined It)

R. Chandrasekar: The Goat, the Sofa and Mr Swami

Chapter 5: The Pen is Mightier Than the Bat

Sir John Major: More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket’s Early Years

R. C. Robertson-Glasgow: 46 Not Out

Sir Neville Cardus: Days in the Sun

Richie Benaud: Willow Patterns

John Arlott: Indian Summer

Timeri N. Murari: The Taliban Cricket Club

Gideon Haigh: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and its Discontents

Christopher Martin-Jenkins: CMJ: A Cricketing Life

Picture Section

Footnotes

Acknowledgements

Also by Jonathan Agnew

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

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Cricket: A Modern Anthology

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