Not in my Day, Sir: Cricket Letters to The Daily Telegraph - Hardcover

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9781845136260: Not in my Day, Sir: Cricket Letters to The Daily Telegraph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845136268 ISBN 13: 9781845136260

Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd, 2011

For more than eighty years, the Telegraph's Letters page has offered an august forum for the discussion of all manner of subjects, but none has been as durable as cricket. Be it the Bodyline controversy, the d'Oliveira and Packer affairs, or the sticky question of players chewing gum out in the middle, Telegraph readers have never been short of an opinion or several, wryly or even cholerically expressed. Before stumps are drawn, they will have dropped into the mailbox for possible publication their trenchant thoughts on such matters of national importance. In the early days it was a furious debate on leg-theory bowling, as demonstrated by England during an Ashes tour in the Thirties. Nowadays the targets could be anything from the latest match-fixing allegations to the deplorable fashion of unshaven players wearing sunglasses, or the debatable appeal of the Twenty20 format, or a recurrent hobbyhorse - the standard of catering at first-class grounds. Over the years The Daily Telegraph's Letters page has attracted many contributions from the great and the good, including legendary Test cricketers like Percy G.H. Fender and C.B. Fry, the finest cricket correspondents like E.W. Swanton and Neville Cardus, presidents past and present of MCC, and aggrieved county captains seeking a right of reply, as well as the likes of Lords Longford and Tebbit, Field-Marshal Lord Bramall and Tim Rice and Graeme Hick. But most of all it is the home of the cricket-watching public, letting off steam with great wit and good humour at the way their favourite sport is being run. Now, Martin Smith has put together a collection of the very best cricket letters to The Daily Telegraph. By turns acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious, they are always to the point, silly or otherwise.

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Review:

`Wonderful book celebrates the timeless tradition of writing cricket letters' - Steve James --Daily Telegraph, 24 May 2011

`very entertaining... Martin Smith has managed to choose a fascinating and eclectic selection of correspondence' --Cricket Web, 5th June 2011 -

`Acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious' --Cricket World, 16th June 2011 -

`very entertaining... Martin Smith has managed to choose a fascinating and eclectic selection of correspondence' --Cricket Web

`Acerbic, witty, opinionated and hilarious'
--Cricket World

About the Author:

Martin Smith was for many years deputy sports editor of the Daily Telegraph and has edited several Telegraph anthologies including Formula 1 and the Tour de France.

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