Author: Brian Rendell
Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN: 1905138970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Almost two hundred years after he first played at Lord’s, his distinctive name can still summon up images of batsmen who wore top hats and no pads, and bowlers who wore braces. Fuller Pilch (1803-1870) was the leading batsman in England ‒ the world even ‒ for about a dozen years in the 1830s and 1840s, at the time of the great Reform Act, the young Queen Victoria and the expansion of the railways. Using his height, he was among the first batsmen to develop forward play into an effective means of countering the new art of round-arm bowling. Born in Norfolk, he developed his batting skills in East Anglia, but was eventually attracted to Kent where, at West Malling and in Canterbury, he was the cornerstone of that county’s first great elevens. County cricket was then limited in its scale and so, to make a living he travelled widely, taking part ‒ like a modern practitioner ‒ in matches in all kinds of formats. Naturally he played regularly for and against the gentlemen at Lord’s. But he also appeared in single-wicket games, village cricket, in the All-England Eleven against eighteens and twenty-twos under the gangmaster William Clarke, even in ‘three-a-sides’. Brian Rendell traces out the life of a quiet, dignified man, unaffected by and almost innocent of his celebrity, from his country beginnings to his poverty after the financial crisis of 1866.
Author: Brian Rendell
Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN: 190816560X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Father and Son: Middlesex and England: Beer and Skittles: Fame and Fortune. Between them Frank and George Mann achieved, in varying measure, all these word pairs in the first half of the twentieth century. They both captained Middlesex to the County Championship and led successful England sides on tours to South Africa. Until the takeover frenzy of the 1970s, the family’s highly successful brewery business, based in East London, was a leading player in the social fabric of southern England. Mann’s Brown Ale can still be found on supermarket shelves today. Both served in Britain’s armed forces outside its shores. Both filled middle-order batting positions for county and country; they took catches, often painfully, at mid off; and every so often they sent down a few deliveries to help bring a match to its conclusion. Frank’s mighty hitting emptied beer tents, sometimes to the detriment of sales of his brewery’s products. George’s management skills were brought to bear on the administration of English cricket. Using material from a wide range of sources, Brian Rendell here brings together a story far larger than the 20,000 first-class runs they scored between them.
Author: John Nyren
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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Frederick Gale
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Pages : 584
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Author: James Pycroft
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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: James Pycroft
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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: J. P.
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: James Pycroft
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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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