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Stories Behind Books: Elementary My Dear Wodehouse
@stock_delivery looks at the new book by @senantix Arunabha Sengupta that brings together Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse.
#cricket #books #sherlockholmes #wodehouse
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The game is afoot...
But that is not Watson, is it?
Watch this space
#comingsoon #sherlockholmes
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A three-pipe problem?
Introducing a few characters from the forthcoming book. Can you identify all of them?
Name to be revealed soon.
#comingsoon #watchthisspace
#caseisstillbeingmade – at Ouder-Amstel, Nederland
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Cover Reveal in Phases...
A bit of it revealed....
There are plenty of other elements, but at the end of the day it's elementary.
Watch this space.
#announcement #caseisstillbeingmade
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Cover Reveal in Phases...
What is the subject? One wonders.
But in some ways, it's elementary.
Watch this space.
#caseisstillbeingmade
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NEW BOOK:
Cover Reveal in parts
The colour combination is here ...
Full cover, subject, period, title etc. will be revealed during the next few days.
Watch this space.
#announcement #cricketbooks
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A bit about Ranji from Elephant in the Stadium.
amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1801…
India: amazon.in/dp/949220312X
#caseisstillbeingmade
Couldn't play the Lord's Test -Lord Harris didn't like birds of passage
62 & 154* on debut
989 runs @ 44.95 in Tests, 58 100s for Sussex
Runs of curious arcs - never a Christian stroke.
Prince of a Small State but King of a Great Game. Ranji born #onthisday 1872
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Sherlock Holmes was there on that day.
One of the ten best cricket books I have read - Stephen Chalke
He knows his stuff - David Frith
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203014 – at Amstelveen, Nederland
Sammy Jones runout as he pats a divot
"I taught the lad a lesson"
"This will cost you the match"
85 to win
"This Thing Can Be Done"
"I couldn't troost Mister Stood"
"I left 6 men to score 30 odd runs"
The Doctor & the Demon
Birth of The Ashes
#onthisday 1882
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When we keep repeating cricket is a gentleman's game, this is what we actually imply.
Not angelic souls not running non-strikers out even when they are halfway down the wicket before the ball is bowled.
Cyril Walters born #onthisday 1905 did well enough in his 11 Tests
What is jarring is that he captained England in his 7th Test
Wyatt had a broken thumb, but Hammond & Sutcliffe were there, as was Hendren
But cricket was a Gentleman's game!
At least captaincy was.
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An ethnic Indian scoring a hundred for the West Indies Test team against India in India - complex layers of inter-connected history.
Extract from Cricket Across Dark Waters
#caseisstillbeingmade
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Ind: amazon.in/dp/9492203219/
He famously made the direct hit resulting in the 1st tied Test
We forget Joe Solomon born #onthisday 1930 also got 65 & 47 in the match
One of the 1st WI Test players of Ind ethnicity, he was a solid bat, a regular in the great 1960s side
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What went on to become subject of this book ..
"Best cricket book of 2022" - The Times
Shortlisted for Cricket Writers Club and Heartaches Cricket Book of the Year awards.
It covers a lot more than just that Test and that tour though.
#caseisstillbeingmade – at Amstelveen, Nederland
The day the elephant entered the stadium
There'd been no newspaper coverage when Ind side arrived in Eng for that summer
But #onthisday 1971 they beat Eng in Eng for 1st time & won the series
An amazing Chandra spell (6/38) did it for them
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In this episode of Stories Behind Books Mayukh Ghosh @stock_delivery talks to Jeremy Lonsdale @lonsdale_jeremy on his new book on Patsy Hendren
#cricket #books @PitchPublishing
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What happened during, before and after the D'Oliveria affair.
All in this superb book by @senantix
"Cricket book with a conscience" - Gideon Haigh
"Written at galloping pace, an extraordinary book" - David Frith
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203030
On paper it was vs Aus
But he faced Vorster & Apartheid SA while traditional old-boys' cronies stood waiting for a snick
His 158 @ The Oval #onthisday 1968 was followed by serious duplicity on part of selectors, but finally led to D'Oliveira affair & SAn isolation
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Lord's #onthisday 1987
Start of the MCC Bicentenary Match.
Sunil Gavaskar's final f-c 100 in his final f-c match.
However, during the match he was refused entry by Lord's stewards. This wouldn't be the last time.
It led to his refusal to accept MCC membership
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A few years after his first refusal, MCC extended the invitation again. Having made his point, Gavaskar did accept it.
In 2003, he delivered the MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture.
He opened with the lines given below.
Not for nothing was he known as a great opener
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Lord's #onthisday 1987
Start of the MCC Bicentenary Match.
Sunil Gavaskar's final f-c 100 in his final f-c match.
However, during the match he was refused entry by Lord's stewards. This wouldn't be the last time.
It led to his refusal to accept MCC membership
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Four decades ago, Frith struggled to accept that the rise of the West Indies. Perhaps because their rise devalued the Ashes like no other team before them.
It hurts, even more because few cricket historians have been as knowledgeable as Frith.
David Frith: "All that matters is Ashes cricket"
Timing could hardly have been worse - with Aus humbled by one of the countries he is so sceptical abt; Eng #7 on the (9-team) ICC Test Championship & ranked #5 in ICC Test rankings
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On that day, PG Wodehouse was supposedly at The Oval
He had to leave to resume his duties at the bank just as Jessop & Jackson were starting their stand
In one version he decided to quit that day
His other version is he was sacked because of a torn ledger
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Eng 48/5. Target 263
The crouching form of Gilbert Jessop hits a 76-ball ton.
He goes for 104
187/7, 214/8, 248/9
Hirst & Rhodes DON'T discuss getting them in singles.
Nor do they get them in singles.
But they do get them.
Eng win by 1 wkt
#onthisday The Oval 1902
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88 wkts in 14 Tests. Sadly the best match figures (13/244) came in a 3-wkt defeat at Trent Bridge 1896. However, his famed reaction at the moment of defeat was a figment of Cardusian imagination.
Tom Richardson, indefatigable & fast, was born #onthisday 1870
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In Piccadilly Jim (1917), PG Wodehouse has butler Bayliss explaining the curious game to cricket-agnostic Bingley Crocker. The match is Surrey vs Kent at Lord's which makes us raise an eyebrow
But we do know such a match took place
However, PGW got the scores of the match wrong – at Amstelveen, Nederland
The Oval plans 'quite upset’ by tensions; soldiers & horses billeted @ Vauxhall end
So #onthisday 1914 Surrey cross Thames & play Kent at Lord's @HomeOfCricket
Gate 7000, the benefit a of Jack Hobbs a disaster
He gets £1671 in 1919 & one more benefit season in 1926
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