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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Cricket
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published in 1864, and a new
edition has been published every year since then. While
limited-edition reprints of every edition of Wisden from 1864 to
1946 have been published over the past few decades, collecting
these limited-edition reprints is not cheap as each one has
normally been priced between GBP50 and GBP100. Now, for the first
time, John Wisden & Co is offering a bundle of the
print-on-demand reprints of the editions between 1916 and 1919, to
allow cricket lovers more affordable access to this historic book
which forms such a significant part of the game's great heritage.
The Player From 'Ponty' is the biography of Glamorgan cricketer
Bernard Hedges, the talented sportsman from the valleys of south
Wales who played rugby for Pontypridd and Swansea, represented a
Great Britain side at football and became a widely respected
cricketer with Glamorgan between 1950 and 1967, who: Scored 17, 773
first-class runs - Glamorgan's 7th all-time top run scorer. Hit
Glamorgan's first one-day century, v Somerset in the Gillette Cup
in 1963. Was one of only six Glamorgan players to score 2,000 runs
in a season (2,026 in 1961). Bernard's journey from his early days
in Rhydyfelin - the eldest of eight children raised in a small
council house - to the local grammar school, his National Service
days, and to his professional career with Glamorgan is lovingly
revealed by his son Stephen, who tells the story of the sporting
life of a man who epitomised the 'unsung hero' by showing great
grit and determination to make the most of the sporting talent he
had.
David Mitchell's connection with cricket began when his grandad
took him to Bradford in 1961 to watch Yorkshire play the
Australians. It was the start of a lifelong passion for the game.
Many hours were devoted to helping in the scorebox, playing Owzthat
and listening to Test Match Special. `From Snicket to Wicket' is a
personal, nostalgic and whimsical view of a game once played by
white-clad players with a red ball. Now it is the opposite.
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