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The Wicket Men - The Last Rites of Minor Counties Cricket (Paperback)
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The Wicket Men - The Last Rites of Minor Counties Cricket (Paperback)
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It's Britain's hottest summer since 1976 and English cricket is in
a sweat of transformation. The public is no longer interested in
County Championship games, traditional touchstone of the calendar.
Fans prefer a bit of flash, bang, wallop – or so the experts tell
us. Where though does that leave the twenty minor counties –
strung out from Northumberland to Norfolk to Cornwall – who for
the past one hundred and twenty-five years have fancied themselves
the stepping-stone between regional club and first class county
competitions? A level of the game seen as either an
ex-professionals' graveyard or the last refuge of blazered old
duffers is in a struggle for its very existence. And come 2020, the
venerable Minor Counties Championship will indeed be blown away,
like dandelion seeds on the breeze, replaced by the newly-branded
and 'more marketable' National Counties Championship. At least that
was the plan. In 2018, no-one has yet heard of Covid-19. What they
do know is that this threat to their competition is existential and
the modernisers at Lord's are to blame, far more interested in such
innovations as a proposed new 'Hundred' than bolstering that which
has stood the test of time. Granted full access to committee and
squad, Tony Hannan, author of Underdogs – A Year in the Life of a
Rugby League Town, spent a season with Cumberland CCC amid the
lakes, fells and mountains of Cumbria. And as might have been
expected in such dramatic terrain, he tells a story full of ups and
downs – complete with one or two surprises. Skippered by former
Durham player Gary Pratt – who as substitute fielder ran out
Australia captain Ricky Ponting during the 2005 Ashes –
Cumberland's expenses-only nomads are nevertheless just one
important thread in a yarn stretching well beyond the boundaries of
Cumbria. The Wicket Men is a cricket book unlike any other. It
draws stumps on a small but fascinating aspect of a pastime whose
rhythms and rituals, while endlessly evolving, are rooted firmly in
the English folk tradition.
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