Yorkshireman, Londoner, Brasilian, World Record Holder, MCC Archive & Library Manager views are my own
Stratford, London
Joined June 2010
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Hello new cricket related followers! if i dont follow bakc please dont worry it's not me being rude, you go in to my cricket list on here so easier to see all tweets together. I do hope this place lasts, if not see you on threads I guess
Many thanks to the great @cricketratan of @capitalkidscric for donating a selection of cricket books from Bangladesh, very timely with the anniversary of the 1976-77 MCC tour there & Bangladesh playing a Test @HomeOfCricket next summer, need to brush up on my Bengali!
Was happy to assist Richard Knott @richieknott with research on England's touring years in the 1950s & 1960s, focusing not only on players but the journalists who travelled with and covered them, sure to be an insightful read! @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks @PitchPublishing
The oldest extant copy of the Laws of Cricket we have is from 1755 by the Star and Garter Club, it only ran to 19 pages, the most recent edition just out is 175 pages, also recently updated for you umpires and scorers out there is the latest Tom Smith's guide #cricketbooks
The latest publications by Hampshire Cricket Heritage to enter @HomeOfCricket library. Firstly personalities from @hantscricket talk about their favourite matches and the other a biography of Alfred John Evans highlighting his sporting achievements #cricketbooks
From Oxfordshire or have an interest in the county? then this book is perfect for you or a loved one, Julian Lawton Smith explores the history of cricket in the county from it's earliest days. the attempt to form a county club & the history of @Oxoncb @ACScricket #cricketbooks
Maybe a slight hint of bias here but Thomas Hardwick has written a new history of @YorkshireCCC always nice for me to expand our Yorkshire section @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks
Greville Stevens is always a name that comes up on 1920s cricket without much detail on him, so I look forward to reading the great Max Bonnell's latest biography & learning more about him. Will Max be nominated for book of the year again? @ACScricket @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks
the latest delivery of books to @HomeOfCricket from the prolific @stevesmith73652 on cricket in North America, this time the great wicketkeepers of Philadelphia, Edgar Willsher's tour of 1868 and Richard Daft's of 1879 #cricketbooks
Founding members included Frances Heron Maxwell & Vera M Cox (president & secretary respectively) Kathleen Doman who had idea of the WCA in Colwall, Isobel Nowell-Smith who stood as umpire in the first women's match at Lord's in 1976 & Marjorie Pollard one it's great promoters
ALT Frances Heron Maxwell and Vera M Cox
ALT Kathleen Doman
ALT Isobel Nowell-Smith
ALT Marjorie Pollard
Chris Smith previously wrote a book on Archie Maclaren's 1901-1902 tour to Australia and he has followed that up with the 1920-1921 MCC tour to Australia which Australia won 5-0 and was the first whitewash in Test history @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks
2026 marks 100th anniversary of West Indies joining the ICC (or maybe was abit later) & in 1928 was given Test status. To mark this occasion Mortimer George has written a book on the 100 years of West Indies international cricket @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks
he's visiting @HomeOfCricket library today researching for his next book but we have recently received @lonsdale_jeremy biography on one of the great early Yorkshire cricketers Richard Letby & I'm in no way biased as a Yorkshireman! @ACScricket
Published a couple of months ago, following on from Tim Brooks' book on Batmaker of Copenhagen, An Englishman is a bit more than a standard cricket novel but follows a cricketing & prodigy during WW1 providing an insight into Edwardian society @HomeOfCricket @PitchPublishing
when we got substantial postcard & cigarette collections, there was a few of the Notts & England captain Arthur Owen Jones who i didnt know but was curious to know more, nice that a new biography has come out about him by Anthony David Davies #cricketbooks @HomeOfCricket
Remember the good old days of English cricket in the nineties? Want to look back at that time with a read then this book by Ben Richards might interest you @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks more details here: younglionssometimesroar.co.u…
He may no longer play for England but very much present in the conversation, this book by Jim Green is still timely looking at the way Ben approaches cricket & life, and includes forward by Mike Brearley who knows a thing or two about captaincy @PitchPublishing #cricketbooks
A fan of @TrentBridge ? Then this indepth book covering the 21st century by @joel_lamy1 might be for you, could be one of the largest books we have & hope we have space for it on the @HomeOfCricket Library shelves! Good to have account of the club's recent history #cricketbooks
When @cricketkit first came to me with his proposal for a book on cricket on 1864 and everything that occurred that year I thought it was a great idea & happy to have helped just a small part in helping Kit get started on his way @HomeOfCricket #cricketbooks
Thanks to the world cup my wife @flaviacruz has become a massive Arsenal fan, I have failed as a Huddersfield Town fan, if we were together in 1920s wouldn't have this problem, but then they would take Herbert Chapman from us & id be so bitter about it causing marital issues