TY - BOOK AU - EdGuha,Ramachandra TI - Picador book of cricket SN - 9780330396127(hbk.) U1 - 796.358 PIC PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Cricket KW - Literary collections KW - English literature N1 - Gratis; Machine generated contents note: FROM GRACE TO HUTTON -- Alan Gibson - Great Men Before Agamemnon 3 -- C. B. Fry - The Founder of Modern Batsmanship 18 -- Bernard Darwin - Genial Giant 20 -- Ray Robinson - The Second Most Famous Beard in Cricket 25 -- J. H. Fingleton - Never Another Like Victor 29 -- Bernard Hollowood - The Greatest of Bowlers 37 -- Ian Peebles - The Colossus of Rhodes 43 -- Ralph Barker - The American LiUee 47 -- Neville Cardus - The Millionaire of Spin 57 -- R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - Three English Batsmen 62 -- Ronald Mason - Imperial Hammond 68 -- W J. O'Reilly - Young Don Bradman 79 -- J. H. Fingleton - Brightly Fades the Don 85 -- C. L. R. James - The Black Bradman 96 -- J. H. Fingleton - My Friend, the Enemy o05 -- E. W. Swanton - Compton Arrives in -- Alan Ross - Hutton Departs x16 -- 'Evoe' - Can Nothing Be Done? Izo -- FROM MILLER TO TBNDULKAR -- Ray Robinson - Touch of a Hero I25 -- Ray Robinson - Much in a Name 132 -- Ray Robinson - The Original Little Master 140 -- C. L. R. James - A Representative Man 148 -- John Arlott - In His Pomp Ix6 -- Ray Robinson - Southern Southpaws 169 -- Frank Keating - Down Under and Out x79 -- Scyld Berry - Gavaskar Equals Bradman x83 -- John Woodcock - Kapil's Devil 86 -- Donald Woods - Twist Again 89 -- MartinJohnson - A Man with a Secret 191 -- Scyld Berry - Botham's Fastest Hundred 194 -- Hugh Mdlvanney -Black Is Bountiful 2oI -- Frank Keating - Marshall Arts 207 -- Martin Johnson - King of the Willow 212 -- B. C. Pires - Emperor of Trinidad 215 -- Frank Keating - Final Fling for the Fizzer 217 -- Mike Selvey - Sachin of Mumbai 22o -- Suresh Menon - Tendulkar of the World 222 -- Alan Ross - Watching Benaud Bowl 225 -- LITTLE HEROES -- A. A. Thomson - Bat, Ball and Boomerang 229 -- John Arlott - Rough Diamond 237 -- Neville Cardus - Robinson of Yorkshire 241 -- David Foot - Character in the Counties 244 -- Rowland Ryder - The Unplayable Jeeves 249 -- C. L. R. James - The Most Unkindest Cut 252 -- Matthew Engel - A Great Fat Man 261 -- Dale Slater - Abed and Apartheid 268 -- Philip Snow - The Fijian Botham 273 -- Sujit Mukherjee - A Jesuit in Patna 282 -- Neville Cardus - A Shastbury Character 286 -- Alan Gibson - The Unmasking of a Dashing Oriental Star 290 -- N. S. Ramaswami - Iverson and the Lesser Arts 293 -- Richard Cashman - The Celebrated Yabba 295 -- Hubert Phillips- An Englishman's Crease 297 -- VMATCHES -- Ralph Barker - The Dem Agaist Englan 301 -- Neville Cardus - The Ideal Cricket Match 317 -- C. L. R. James - Barnes v. Constantine 326 -- J. H. Fingleton - The Best Test I Have Known 330 -- Richie Benaud - The Last Day at Brisbane 34 -- Mike Marqusee - David Slays Goliath 350 -- R. C. Robeon-Glasgow - The One-Way Critic 361 -- STYLEs AND THEE -- J. H. Fingleton - The Brilliance of LefHanders 365 -- John Arlott - Fast and Furious 38 -- Ian Peebles - Opening Batsmen 382 -- John Arlott - Not One to Cover 386 -- Gerald Brodribb- The Big Hit 390 -- Ian Peebles - Ba9ooners 398 -- Neville Cardus - The Umpire 401 -- J. H. Fingleton - Cricket Farewels 404 -- Tunku Varadarajan - To Lord's with Love - and a Hamper 406 -- Alan Ross - The Presence of Ranji 40o -- Gideon Haigh - Sir Donald Brandname 412 -- B. C. Pires - Coping with Defeat 419 -- Ian Wooldridge - Ashes Dream Teams 424 -- John Arlott - Australianism 428 -- V S. Naipaul - The Caribbean Flavour 432 -- J. B. Priestley - The Lesson of Garfield Sobers 437 -- Neville Cardus - The Spirit of Summer 44I -- A. A. Thomson - Winter Made Glorious 445 -- Neville Cardus - What's in a Name? 450 -- Rowland Ryder - The Pleasures of Reading Wisden 453 -- Ramachandra Guha - Epilogue: An Addict's Archive 461 -- R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - The Bowler's Epitaph 470 -- Acknowledgements 471 N2 - Contributed articles UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001358941.html ER -