All in a Day's Cricket by Levison, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Table of contents Foreword Introduction 1 ‘A Thoroughly Anglo-Saxon Institution’

The Evolution of Cricket (J. N. Crawford) A Girdle Round the Earth (F. S. Ashley-Cooper) How It Started (P.C.G. Labouchere, T.A.J. Provis and Peter S. Hargreaves) Cricket and the Pyramids (Anonymous) The Dawn of Cricket (H.T. Waghorn) A Cricketer’s Notebook (Charles Box) My Consulate in Samoa (W.B. Churchward)

2 Start of Play

Bangers and Bats (Marcus Trescothick) Cricket Memories (R.L. Hodgson) Wide (Michael Simkins) A Cricketer at the Breakfast Table (Alan Gibson) Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (W.G. Grace with Arthur Porritt) Opening the Innings (Rachael Heyhoe Flint) It’s a Great Day for Being a Boy (David Walker)

3 Let’s Play Here

4 The Tools of the Trade

April (R. C. Robertson-Glasgow) Bat and Ball (W. J. Lewis) Felix on the Bat (Nicholas Felix) Cricket in Denmark (P. C. G. Labouchere, T. A. J. Provis and Peter S. Hargreaves) A Jammy Bastard (Marcus Trescothick) Progress of Cricket (John Nyren with Charles Cowden Clarke) Weights and Measures (R. C. Robertson-Glasgow) Kent and London (Hugh Barty-King)

5 Getting There

6 Pitch and Toss

Lord’s on the Big Day (Jim Fairbrother) Trent Bridge Ground-Keeper (Richard Daft) Recollections of Lord’s and the Marylebone Cricket Club (William Slatter) The Gatekeeper (R. C. Robertson-Glasgow) A Cricketer on Cricket (W. J. Ford) Winning the Toss (R. E. S. Wyatt) Bumpers, Boseys and Brickbats ( Jack Pollard) The Toss at the 2011 World Cup Final (Vic Marks)

7 Drinks Break

The Light and the Dark (C. L. R. James) The Experimental Matches (William Dennison) Cricket at the Universities (S. J. Southerton) Lord Harris in India (A. A. Lilley) Cricketers (Samuel Reynolds Hole)

8 The Professional Life

County Round: April–May (Dickie Dodds) Haircut (Phil Tufnell) One Hundred for Eddie (Marcus Trescothick) Batting Orders (Mike Brearley) Random Reflections (Frank Chester) Fox on the Run (Graeme Fowler) And After (C. B. Fry) A Cricket Pro’s Lot (Fred Root) Cricket with the Lid Off (A. W. Carr)

9 Keeping Count

The Men in White Coats (Teresa McLean) Knowing the Score (Keith Booth) Scores Real and Imaginary (W. E. W. Collins) A Yorkshire Cockney (Alan Gibson) Recollections of Lord’s and the Marylebone Cricket Club (William Slatter) A Summer Saturday (Harold C. Woods)

10 It’s Not Cricket

W. G. – Too Clever to Cheat? (Sir Derek Birley) Bumpers, Boseys and Brickbats (Jack Pollard) Radcliffe – Spilling Blood for Victory (Harry Pearson) Alfred Shaw, Cricketer: His Career and Reminiscences (Alfred Shaw) The Mohali ‘Fix’ (Shaharyar M. Khan) My Tour Diaries (Angus Fraser) The English Game of Cricket (Charles Box) Cricket in the Fiji Islands (Philip A. Snow)

11 Heroes

Everybody’s Hero (Sir Ian Botham) Ranjitsinhji’s 154 Not Out (A. A. Lilley) The Wicket at Melbourne (Frank Tyson) The Cricketers of My Time (John Nyren) A Hobbs Innings (Dudley Carew) Fights for the Ashes 1882–86 (George Giffen) Caste: Up from Serfdom (Ramachandra Guha) The Three Pears (A. A. Thomson) Plan of Pavilion Seating on the Worcester Ground (MCC)

12 ‘One of Life’s Best Experiences’

My Tour Diaries (Angus Fraser) Lord’s (Rachael Heyhoe Flint) The Sentiment of the Ball (A. E. Crawley) Goodbye to the Razor-edge (Frank Tyson) A Personal Perspective (Christopher Martin-Jenkins) A Day at the Home of Cricket (Toby Pullan) The Book of the Ball (A. E. Crawley) Club Cricket and Umpires (Richard Daft) The Memories of Dean Hole (Samuel Reynolds Hole) Sports and Pastimes (William Howitt)

13 On Tour

Heyhoe! (Rachael Heyhoe Flint) Fox on the Run (Graeme Fowler) Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (W. G. Grace with Arthur Porritt) Line and Length (Frances Edmonds) My Tour Diaries (Angus Fraser)

14 ‘So Over to the Cricket At ...’

So Over to the Cricket at . . . (John Arlott) Radio: A New Career (Alan McGilvray) Quiet Studio (Michael Simkins) Insect Bites and Missing Luggage (Adam Mountford) The Middle Men (Alan McGilvray)

15 Lunch Interval

Cricket Scores 1730–1773 (H. T. Waghorn) The Pick of the Bunch (A. W. Carr) Diary of a Cricket Lover (Vernon Coleman) Cricket in the Fiji Islands (Philip A. Snow) Julius Caesar (William Caffyn) The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens) Careful Arrangements (Lord Harris)

16 ‘The Men In White Coats’

The Men in White Coats (Teresa McLean) Cricket Extras (Dickie Dodds) Smiles (Frank Chester) Cricketers (Samuel Reynolds Hole) The Golden Era (C. B. Fry) The Duties of an Umpire (William Sapte) The Men in White Coats (Harold C. Woods) Umpiring Curiosities (An Old Cricketer)

17 More Heroes

Players Past and Present (F. S. Ashley-Cooper) Rags to Riches (Mike Brearley and Dudley Doust) County Cricket Introduces Me to Some Famous Players (A. A. Lilley) Patient Merit (C. L. R. James) The Demon Bowler (R. L. Hodgson) Kings of Cricket (Richard Daft) Difficult Targets: W. R. Hammond (R. C. Robertson-Glasgow) A Cricket Pro’s Lot (Fred Root)

18 What To Do While Watching Cricket

Dawn of The Blob (Harry Pearson) Diary of a Cricket Lover (Vernon Coleman) How I Built my Wisden Collection (Derek Barnard) Eliza Watches Cricket (R. L. Hodgson) Name Dropping (Frank Keating)

19 Tea Interval

A Two-Days’ Innings (A. A. Lilley) Tennyson’s Captaincy at Leeds (Robert Lynd) Seventy-One Not Out (William Caffyn) The Diary of Thomas Turner (Thomas Turner) Cricket Memories (Edward Rutter) Two Cricket Grounds (E. V. Lucas) Hints to Young Players (William Sapte) Hints to Old Players (William Sapte)

20 Extras

A Cricket Match in 2000 A.D. (W. J. Ford) The First Netting-Boundary Game (Andrew Ward) The Street Called Fleet (C. B. Fry) Against the Current (C. L. R. James) Indian Cricket through the Ages (Boria Majumdar) How to Get Out (W. E. W. Collins) Personalities (Col. Philip Trevor) The Village Heath (Alec Waugh)

21 ‘The Long Room In The Sky’

Introduction to the Wisden Book of Obituaries (Benny Green, ed.) The Death of G. H. Hardy (C. P. Snow) Silence of the Heart (David Frith) Cricket in the Fiji Islands (Philip A. Snow) Fatalities on the Cricket Field (An Old Cricketer)

22 The Last Over

‘Last Over, Gentlemen’ (Lord Harris) Hastings (Dudley Carew) Introduction to Kings of Cricket (Andrew Lang) The Lure of Cricket (E. V. Lucas)

Acknowledgements Index