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Product details
- ISBN 9780413775917
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This beautifully produced volume contains verse written by the great exponents of the game, covering a period of over 250 years from its infancy up to the present day. The selection features the cricketing reflections of famous celebrants of the game ranging from P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and E.V. Lucas, to Francis Thompson and Neville Cardus. It is certain to please all tastes, from the serious to the satirical, and will be a worthy addition to the bookshelves of cricket lovers of all ages.
Hubert Doggart played first class cricket for Cambridge University, Sussex and England and has enjoyed poetry of all kinds throughout his life. David Rayvern Allen was until recently a full-time BBC producer and has won many awards for his work. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and in collaboration with the late John Arlott has compiled a number of cricket anthologies. His biography of Arlott gained much critical acclaim and won the Cricket Society Jubilee Literary Award.
