The Picador Book of Cricket by Ramachandra Guha

Author:Ramachandra Guha
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781509841400
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2016-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

A sad and sincere effort, but I do not think poor King Cole would have liked that ‘run out for nought’. Though kindly meant, it seems a distressing commentary on human effort.

An odd point about the Aborigines was that on their return home, though two or three of them turned out in state cricket, none of them achieved any success. Johnny Mullagh, by far the highest of them in capacity, played happily in good club cricket, and when he died at the age of fifty he was buried in his club blazer. There is a splendour in his epitaph: ‘He was a cricketer to the core.’

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As more countries were granted Test status, and as they began playing more frequently against one another, the English County Championship began to lose its significance. Now, when the average county match attracts a crowd of a dozen pensioners and their dogs, it is difficult to recall the extreme passions that the championship once commanded. Local loyalties were deep and fierce, and local characters abounded. Much energy and skill once went into the portrayal of cricketers who played for county rather than country. Reproduced here are three essays on characters in the counties, written (by chance) by three Guardian men.

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