Book Description
Remarkably, a paper as committed to sports coverage as the "Telegraph" has neve collected all its best cricket writing over the years into one volume. Now, Nck Hoult, who covers cricket for the paper's sports desk, has filled that gap.here is a wealth of material. The early coverage from the start of the twentith century, is evocative reportage, ranging from the deaths of W.G. Grace andictor Trumper and the exploits of C.B. Fry, through Douglas Jardine's own selfpenned column on the Bodyline series, to "Jim" Swanton's magisterial distillatons of Don Bradman's Ashes performances. From the seventies, however, sports jurnalism evolved into features, profiles and analysis, with for the "Telegraph the superb writing of Tony Lewis on, for example, Clive Lloyd's all-conquerin West Indians and the first World Cup. Then, into the nineties the more whimsial and personal cricket writing from the likes of Martin Johnson, Mark Nichola and Simon Hughes, covering both keenly fought Tests and the most bucolic couny match at Bournemouth, with Barry Richards hammering a hundred before lunch.
