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Who Only Cricket Know : Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54
Who Only Cricket Know : Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54
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Author: Woodhouse, David
West Indies
Published on 20 November 2023 by Trinorth Ltd (Fairfield Books) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 448 pages, 55 black and white photographs
130 x 197 x 36 | 540g
Who Only Cricket Know tells the story of the second most controversial tour in English cricket history after Bodyline and has not been revisited since two tour books came out in the immediate aftermath. The cricket is dramatic, the key characters fascinating, and it is awash with incidents on and off the field, many of them involving race and social class. This was the first tour in which MCC travelled by plane (although they returned home on the boat) and the first in they were captained by a professional player – Len Hutton. It was also Hutton’s Yorkshire teammate Fred Trueman’s debut tour and for the opposition, the Three Ws were in their pomp and a young man called Garfield Sobers made his international bow.
David Woodhouse has meticulously researched every aspect of the tour as well as carrying out a number of interviews, retaining the nuances and subtleties of the different levels of the story. He takes us through the lead-up to the tour, the warm-up games and the five Test matches, as well as the recriminations that took place both at Lord’s and in the West Indies in the tour’s aftermath.
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