A Fourth Innings with Cardus
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
254 pages
978-0-285-64102-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this, another collection of classic cricket writing by Sir Neville Cardus, he urges that the game itself is more important than winning, players should fully express themselves in the game and he writes about those players who delight the senses: Hurst and Hutton, McCabe and Compton. There are essays on the Indians, West Indians and the 1948 Australians who Cardus considered the best team ever to visit England. An outstanding article describes an innings by Compton that he believed to be 'champagne for the connoisseur, ginger pop for the boys'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-285-64102-0 (9780285641020)
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Neville Cardus | Rupert Hart-Davis
A Fourth Innings with Cardus
Book
03/2011
Souvenir Press Ltd
€38.56
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Neville Cardus was best known for his writing on cricket and music for the Guardian. He became the Guardian's cricket correspondent in 1919, John Atlott described Cardus's cricket writing as: 'Before him, cricket was reported ... with him it was for the first time appreciated, felt, and imaginatively described'. He was awarded a knighthood in 1967, was president of Lancashire County Cricket Club 1971-72 and died in 1975.
