Cricketers of My Time Heroes to Remember

by Swanton, E.W.

• ISBN13: 9780233997469
• ISBN10: 0233997466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group

Summary

With such a wealth of material spanning the best years of British and international cricket, this book will be a tribute to not only those many fine cricketers celebrated in the text, but also to one of Britain's finest sports journalists.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Golden Age
S. F. Barnes	1	(3)
C. B. Fry	4	(5)
George Gunn	9	(2)
George Hirst	11	(2)
Wilfred Rhodes	13	(3)
Reggie Spooner	16	(2)
Sir Pelham Warner	18	(5)
Between Two Wars
Bill Bowes	23	(2)
Frank Chester	25	(2)
Leonard Crawley	27	(2)
`Duleep'	29	(3)
Billy Griffith	32	(3)
Harold Larwood	35	(3)
Maurice Leyland	38	(2)
Philip Mead	40	(3)
Ernest Tyldesley	43	(2)
Bryan Valentine	45	(2)
Bill Voce	47	(2)
Arthur Wellard	49	(4)
Roll of Honour
Gerry Chalk	53	(2)
Peter Eckersley	55	(2)
Kenneth Farnes	57	(2)
G. B. Legge	59	(1)
George Macaulay	60	(2)
Maurice Turnbull	62	(2)
Hedley Verity	64	(5)
The West Indian Impact
Learie Constantine	69	(2)
Gerry Gomez	71	(3)
George Headley	74	(2)
Jeffrey Stollmeyer	76	(2)
Sir Frank Worrell	78	(5)
Great Australians
Jack Fingleton	83	(2)
Jack Gregory	85	(2)
Lindsay Hassett	87	(3)
Ray Lindwall	90	(2)
Stan McCabe	92	(2)
Arthur Mailey	94	(2)
Bill O'Reilly	96	(3)
Billy Woodfull	99	(4)
Household Names
Ken Barrington	103	(2)
Denis Compton	105	(4)
Bill Edrich	109	(2)
Walter Hammond	111	(3)
`Patsy' Hendren	114	(3)
Sir Jack Hobbs	117	(4)
Lord Home of the Hirsel	121	(2)
P. B. H. May	123	(4)
Colin Milburn	127	(2)
Herbert Sutcliffe	129	(4)
Some Captains
Sir George Allen	133	(4)
A. P. F. Chapman	137	(2)
P. G. H. Fender	139	(2)
A. E. R. Gilligan	141	(2)
Molly Hide	143	(2)
Sir Leonard Hutton	145	(5)
Brian Sellers	150	(2)
Wilf Wooller	152	(3)
R. E. S. Wyatt	155	(3)
Norman Yardley	158	(5)
All-Rounders
Les Ames	163	(4)
F. R. Brown	167	(2)
J. G. W. Davies	169	(2)
Godfrey Evans	171	(3)
J. W. Hearne	174	(2)
`Tuppy' Owen-Smith	176	(2)
R. W. V. Robins	178	(3)
Maurice Tate	181	(2)
Frank Woolley	183	(6)
Communicators
Rex Alston	189	(3)
H. S. Altham and R. C. Robertson-Glasgow	192	(4)
John Arlott	196	(4)
Sir Neville Cardus	200	(3)
Alan Gibson	203	(3)
Brian Johnston	206	(3)
Michael Melford	209	(3)
Ron Roberts	212	(5)
Masters of Spin
`Tich' Freeman	217	(2)
Jim Laker	219	(4)
Tony Lock	223	(2)
Ian Peebles	225	(2)
Hugh Tayfield	227	(2)
J. C. White	229	(2)
Doug Wright	231	(4)
Index	235