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A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Jeremy Lonsdale
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-01 - Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

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Over two million British men were injured or killed in the First World War. Millions more people supported the war effort at home – in factories, fields or by
Cricket in the Second World War
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: John Broom
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-07 - Publisher: Pen and Sword History

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As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that ‘England has now started the gri
Wisden on the Great War
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Pages: 544
Authors: Andrew Renshaw
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Readers of the 1917 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack were advised by the editor, Sydney Pardon: “Its chief feature is a record of the cricketers who have fallen in
The Cricket War
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In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a 39-year-old businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his ow
A History of Cricket
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Harry Surtees Altham
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Covers the period before the first World War.