Cardus on Cricket (Paperback)
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Sir Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and Cardus on Cricket is a representative selection of the best of Cardus's writing on one of the world's favourite sports.
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.
Chosen and introduced by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Cardus on Cricket features a range of writings from 'Cricket', 'Days in the Sun', 'The Summer Game', 'Good Days', 'Australian Summer' and 'The Manchester Guardian'.
Cardus on Cricket (Ebook)
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Sir Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and Cardus on Cricket is a representative selection of the best of Cardus's writing on one of the world's favourite sports.
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.
Chosen and introduced by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Cardus on Cricket features a range of writings from 'Cricket', 'Days in the Sun', 'The Summer Game', 'Good Days', 'Australian Summer' and 'The Manchester Guardian'.
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