This July sees the publication of The Great Romantic, a new
biography by Duncan Hamilton of the greatest cricket writer of all
time, indeed the man who invented modern cricket writing as we know
it: Neville Cardus. Cardus was for many years cricket correspondent
of the (then Manchester) Guardian, but wrote for a host of other
publications including Wisden. Before him, cricket writing meant
rather drybones match reports full of statistics and jargon. Cardus
wrote about the event: the sylvan ground, the emotion of watching a
great batsman like Victor Trumper in full flow. For everyone who
wants to sample his finest writings, Safe Haven now publishes a new
volume of Cardus's best cricket writings. Here is Cardus on Don
Bradman, Victor Trumper, Denis Compton and Richie Benaud, at Roses
matches and the arcadian cricket festival at Dover beneath
Shakespeare Cliff, seeing the Australians defeated at Eastbourne -
and of course at the home of cricket, Lord's. A handsome small
hardback with retro cover illustration, here is a book for every
lover of fine writing on the Summer Game.
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