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RYDER, ROWLAND: Cricket Calling
Faber & Faber 1995 First VG/VG price clipped 205pp. 8pp b/w photos 9 x 6 380g. ΒΆ A beguiling mixture of cricketing anecdotes and autobiography, the book stretches from a childhood encounter in 1921 with Warwick Armstrong, captain of the greatest Australian team ever to tour England, through the bodyline saga and on up to the modern day. On the way the reader encounters such luminaries as Donald Bradman, Ian Botham and Brian Lara and toics as diverse s "sledging" and P G Wodehouse's favourite county tie, class conflict and ball tampering!
Offered for GBP 12.00 = appr. US$ 19.63 by: Stort Books - Book number: 19915