Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Glossary
Foreword
Introduction
1. Lumpy, Mynn and Silver Billy Until The Mid-Nineteenth Century
2. The ‘Golden Age’, Grace and Trumper The Turn of The Twentieth Century
3. More Golden Age Champions Victorians and Edwardians
4. Gentlemen, Players, Varsity and Roses Background Developments
5. The Greatest Rivalry Even Bigger Background Developments
6. Good for Nothing and Nobody The First World War
7. Governance, Grounds, Grandees, Books and Benefactors Three Hundred Years of Organization and Altruism
8. Boxing, Sound Thrashings and The Big Ship The 1920s
9. Touring, Tennyson and Rollo Still Mainly in The 1920s
10. Root, Tich, Learie and Sandham The 1920s Become The 1930s
11. Bradman and Hammond The Greatest, But for One Man
12. Old Friends Fall Out The 1930s
13. Nayudu, Vizzy, Verity, Grimmett, Gimblett and Smith More From The 1930s
14. Cricket On The Cusp of War Even More From The 1930s
15. Victims, Survivors and Invincibles The 1940s
16. New Starts, New Stars and Caribbean Skies The 1940s and 1950s
17. Brylcreem Boys More From The 1940s and 1950s
18. Sensitive Spinners The Mid-1950s
19. Tied Test and Tumult The 1960s
20. Small Changes, Big Characters More From The 1960s
21. Shorter Formats, New Stars The 1960S and 1970s
22. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained From The 1960s to The 1990s
23. The Holy Trinity Nine Decades of Writers and Talkers
24. World Cups and World Beaters from The 1970s to The 1990s
25. Revolutions and Rebels The 1970s to The New Millennium
26. One Man’S Salvation 1981
27. Women’S Cricket A Century of Inequality
28. Cricket Will Never Die A New Millennium
Appendix The Laws of Cricket at a Glance
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index