Contents

About the Book

About the Author

List of Illustrations

Dedication

Title Page

Epigraph

Foreword by Clive Lloyd

Prologue

1. ‘Our business was to admire, wonder, imitate, learn’

2. The England captain had something wrong with his mouth

3. ‘Regret No Coloureds’

4. ‘My tradition is all cricket, no pay’

5. ‘No point in planning to take their queen out’

6. ‘Unless the cricketer had heroic qualities, we did not want to see him’

7. They all really could bowl with their eyes shut

8. ‘You get bouncers, very good bouncers and brilliant bouncers’

9. ‘I understood the West Indian psyche’

10. ‘Bless up Viv Rich. Every time, big up Viv Rich’

Epilogue

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

Copyright