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Tales from a Long Room

Peter Tinniswood

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Description:Those were the golden days: WG and Spofforth were locked in mortal combat at Lords; MCC rule held sway throughout the Empire; and the world had not yet been darkened by the spectre of aluminium bats, Geoffrey Boycott and underarm bowling; The brigadier remembers it all By the flickering firelight of a long room, he takes us back to some surprisingly little known incidents and characters from cricket's heyday. It's all here - the MCC's ill-fated test against a pygmy XI, Scott's and Amundsen's historic match at the South Pole, the inspiring story of Mendip-Hughes, Somerset's most distinguished one, legged off-spinner; and, of course, the promising but tragically short career in first-class cricket of the late Queen Victoria.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tales from a Long Room. To get started finding Tales from a Long Room, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 128

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Arrow

Release: 1982

ISBN: 0099266202

Description: Those were the golden days: WG and Spofforth were locked in mortal combat at Lords; MCC rule held sway throughout the Empire; and the world had not yet been darkened by the spectre of aluminium bats, Geoffrey Boycott and underarm bowling; The brigadier remembers it all By the flickering firelight of a long room, he takes us back to some surprisingly little known incidents and characters from cricket's heyday. It's all here - the MCC's ill-fated test against a pygmy XI, Scott's and Amundsen's historic match at the South Pole, the inspiring story of Mendip-Hughes, Somerset's most distinguished one, legged off-spinner; and, of course, the promising but tragically short career in first-class cricket of the late Queen Victoria.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tales from a Long Room. To get started finding Tales from a Long Room, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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