Ebook: Cardus on Cricket: a selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE 1949 EDITION; POSTSCRIPT; From CRICKET; PRELUDE; FOWLER'S MATCH; THE CHAMPION; MACDONALD; From DAYS IN THE SUN; THE GREATEST TEST MATCH; TOM RICHARDSON; CRICKET FIELDS AND CRICKETERS; BY THREE RUNS; CRICKET AT BRAMALL LANE; A NOTE ON CHAPMAN; From THE SUMMER GAME; OUR VILLAGE; THE LEGENDARY RHODES; ROY KILNER; ARTHUR SHREWSBURY; 'PLAY UP, SCHOOL!'; AN INNINGS OF HAMMOND; PARKIN--THE CARD; WHAT'S IN A NAME?; HOBBS IN THE NETS; A FIGHT TO A FINISH; MACDONALD v. KENT; From GOOD DAYS; 'PATSY'; FRANK WOOLLEY.;Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and here is a representative selection of the best of Cardus's writing on the sport. Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings.