Cricket Calling

A mixture of cricketing anecdote and autobiography which stretches from a meeting with Warwick Armstrong, captain of the great 1921 Australian touring team, to the present. It features Jessop and Bradman, Botham and Lara, and topics as diverse as sledging and P.G. Wodehouse's favourite county tie.

Summary

A mixture of cricketing anecdote and autobiography which stretches from a meeting with Warwick Armstrong, captain of the great 1921 Australian touring team, to the present. It features Jessop and Bradman, Botham and Lara, and topics as diverse as sledging and P.G. Wodehouse's favourite county tie.

Product details

• Authors: Roland Ryder, Rowland Ryder, Ryder Rowland
• Assisted by: Cowdrey Colin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780571174768
• ISBN: 978-0-571-17476-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 199 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 176 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Essays, cricket, SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cricket, Literary essays