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‘Wonderful book that celebrates the timeless tradition of writing cricket letters’ - Steve James (Daily Telegraph )
‘This collection, nicely produced, is never less than entertaining.’ 8/10 (ACS Journal )
‘Very entertaining… Martin Smith has managed to choose a fascinating and eclectic selection of correspondence’ (Cricketweb.net )
‘Acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious’ (Cricketworld.com )
‘This collection, nicely produced, is never less than entertaining.’ 8/10 (ACS Journal )
‘Very entertaining… Martin Smith has managed to choose a fascinating and eclectic selection of correspondence’ (Cricketweb.net )
‘Acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious’ (Cricketworld.com )
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For more than eighty years, the Telegraph’s Letters page has offered an august forum for the discussion of all manner of subjects, but none has been as durable as cricket. Be it the Bodyline controversy, the d’Oliveira and Packer affairs, or the sticky question of players chewing gum out in the middle, Telegraph readers have never been short of an opinion or several, wryly or even cholerically expressed. Before stumps are drawn, they will have dropped into the mailbox for possible publication their trenchant thoughts on such matters of national importance. In the early days it was a furious debate on leg-theory bowling, as demonstrated by England during an Ashes tour in the Thirties. Nowadays the targets could be anything from the latest match-fixing allegations to the deplorable fashion of unshaven players wearing sunglasses, or the debatable appeal of the Twenty20 format, or – a recurrent hobbyhorse - the standard of catering at first-class grounds. Over the years The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page has attracted many contributions from the great and the good, including legendary Test cricketers like Percy G.H. Fender and C.B. Fry, the finest cricket correspondents like E.W. Swanton and Neville Cardus, presidents past and present of MCC, and aggrieved county captains seeking a right of reply, as well as the likes of Lords Longford and Tebbit, Field-Marshal Lord Bramall and Tim Rice and Graeme Hick. But most of all it is the home of the cricket-watching public, letting off steam with great wit and good humour at the way their favourite sport is being run. Now, Martin Smith has put together a collection of the very best cricket letters to The Daily Telegraph. By turns acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious, they are always to the point, silly or otherwise.
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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his book is an unexpected treat. I assumed it would be an endless parade of wing-commanders, field marshalls and Tory peers bemoaning the lapses in standards and how cricket isn't what it was. Sure enough, they're present in this book, which is a selection of cricket letters to the Telegraph from 1928 to the present day, but there are players, pundis and, best of all, a well-informed public whose love of the game shines through their witticisms and whingeing.
The editor has done a good job of selecting letters that effectively tell the story of cricket down the decades. Body-line, Packer, Sobers' six sixes: they're all here - but there's a lot of humour, much of it intentional and some of it simply old-fashioned pedantry.
My favourite is a letter from Richard Hutton, son of Sir Len. In a few hundred unflattering and savagely witty words he described the Fred Trueman he knew as a boastful, boorish team-mate rather than the bluff character beloved of TMS listeners. Recommended to anyone with an interest in cricket history.
The editor has done a good job of selecting letters that effectively tell the story of cricket down the decades. Body-line, Packer, Sobers' six sixes: they're all here - but there's a lot of humour, much of it intentional and some of it simply old-fashioned pedantry.
My favourite is a letter from Richard Hutton, son of Sir Len. In a few hundred unflattering and savagely witty words he described the Fred Trueman he knew as a boastful, boorish team-mate rather than the bluff character beloved of TMS listeners. Recommended to anyone with an interest in cricket history.
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Cricket is the nearest I get to religion, so I buy all sorts of twaddle in its name. I did not have high hopes of this book, expecting it to be relegated to the toilet, for the occasional otherwise engaged browsing.
In the event, I read it cover to cover in three days, enjoying every exchange and not a few of the nutty rule-changes suggested. It's basically the history of English cricket, in the words of dozens of contributors.
Highly recommended, in or out of the bathroom.
In the event, I read it cover to cover in three days, enjoying every exchange and not a few of the nutty rule-changes suggested. It's basically the history of English cricket, in the words of dozens of contributors.
Highly recommended, in or out of the bathroom.
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I bought this book because a friend told me that a letter of mine to the Daily Telegraph was included. It was fun to see that but I also enjoyed the wide range of cricket topics covered in the book. It is excellent as a bedside book to dip into for a few minutes before sleep.
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