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At the start of the 1959 season, Yorkshire had not won an outright County Championship for 13 years, in those days an unthinkable scenario for White Rose players and supporters. By 1969, they had set the record straight in the most emphatic manner, winning seven Championships and lifting the Gillette Cup twice to establish their place in the pantheon of County Cricket's greatest teams. The Yorkshire side of the Sixties featured some of the most famous players in the history of the game: Fred Trueman, Brian Close, Raymond Illingworth and Geoffrey Boycott. And alongside them were the men whose deeds guaranteed them a place in White Rose folklore but whose stories have, for the most part, not been told before. Men like Philip Sharpe, slip fielder supreme, wicketkeeper Jim Binks, who made 412 successive first-class appearances, Mel Ryan and Bob Platt, Trueman's new ball partners, and Richard Hutton, son of Sir Leonard. They are just some of the players who will feature in "Magnificent Seven", the story, in their own words, of the champion cricketers who shaped Yorkshire's Championship Decade.
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Magnificent Seven is written by Andrew Collomosse, a national newspaper journalist since 1974 and cricket writer for the Daily Telegraph and Wisden-Cricketer for over 20 years. His seven previous books include the life stories of footballers Nat Lofthouse and Jimmy Armfield and cricketers Richard Blakey and Ian Austin.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Between 1959 and 1969 Yorkshire won crickets County Championship seven times. Although winning the championship is nowadays seen as a bit of an irrelevance (when Nottinghamshire clinched this year's title it barely got a mention in most of the popular press) in those days it was a big thing, so for Yorkshire to win it so many times in so little time was an outstanding achievement.
Sportswriter Andrew Collomosse has interviewed each of the surviving members of this great Yorkshire team, with the exception of Geoff Boycott who declined to take part), and in this fascinating book he recounts these interviews.
We learn that whilst the Yorkshire team included many top class players, what really gave them the edge over all the other teams was their outstanding team spirit. It comes across very clearly that rather than being merely a team of talented sportsmen the Yorkshire team was like one big family, all pulling together on the field and relaxing together off the field.
Whilst the book is full of entertaining recollections of this winning period there are a few that are particularly enlightening. For example, the pieces written by Brian Close and Ray Illingworth make it quite clear that they both regard Yorkshires then chairman, Brian Sellars, with utter contempt. Sellars comes across as being a mean spirited dictator that even today neither Close nor Illingworth has a good word for. I also was interested to read about the scenes at Scarborough, when thousands of people thronged the streets to celebrate one of Yorkshires Championship wins.
This is an excellent book, but could have been even better if there had been included a section giving the statistics of each of the Championship winning years. After reading about each season it would have been nice to be able to look at league tables, brief details of each game and the individual averages of each player.
Sportswriter Andrew Collomosse has interviewed each of the surviving members of this great Yorkshire team, with the exception of Geoff Boycott who declined to take part), and in this fascinating book he recounts these interviews.
We learn that whilst the Yorkshire team included many top class players, what really gave them the edge over all the other teams was their outstanding team spirit. It comes across very clearly that rather than being merely a team of talented sportsmen the Yorkshire team was like one big family, all pulling together on the field and relaxing together off the field.
Whilst the book is full of entertaining recollections of this winning period there are a few that are particularly enlightening. For example, the pieces written by Brian Close and Ray Illingworth make it quite clear that they both regard Yorkshires then chairman, Brian Sellars, with utter contempt. Sellars comes across as being a mean spirited dictator that even today neither Close nor Illingworth has a good word for. I also was interested to read about the scenes at Scarborough, when thousands of people thronged the streets to celebrate one of Yorkshires Championship wins.
This is an excellent book, but could have been even better if there had been included a section giving the statistics of each of the Championship winning years. After reading about each season it would have been nice to be able to look at league tables, brief details of each game and the individual averages of each player.
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A wonderful book of what excellent professional cricket was like. Everyone should buy it. Do not lend it, you will never get it back.
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I purchased this book for the sole purpose of reading while I am on holiday over Christmas & the New Year.
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