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Stephen Chalke
Stephen Chalke (born 5 June 1948) is an English author and publisher, particularly of books on cricket and cricketers. Chalke was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He has two undergraduate degrees – one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the other in Mathematics – and a postgraduate degree in English Literature. He has taught in adult, further and higher education, but since the late 1990s he has increasingly concentrated on writing and publishing. For many years he worked for the Open University. In an article in the 2010 edition of ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' he is identified as "an author, publisher and captain of the Winsley Third XI". He retired from playing cricket in 2013 at the age of 65. Chalke's cricket-writing career began after he received some coaching from the former Somerset player Ken Biddulph in the early 1990s. He wrote down some of Biddulph's reminiscences, then interviewed other players from the 1950s and collected their cricket memories into his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisden Cricket Monthly
''Wisden Cricket Monthly'' (WCM) is a UK-based print and digital cricket magazine available to buy worldwide. The original version ran from June 1979 to September 2003. The magazine was revived in November 2017, launching with an Ashes Special which included exclusive interviews with Joe Root, Steve Smith (cricketer), Steve Smith, Sir Alastair Cook, Alastair Cook and Mike Brearley. WCM's editor-in-chief is Phil Walker, with Jo Harman as magazine editor – the former editor and deputy editor of ''All Out Cricket'', respectively. John Stern, former editor of ''The Wisden Cricketer,'' is editor-at-large. WCM has a 10-strong editorial board comprising ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Wisden'' editor Lawrence Booth (cricket writer), Lawrence Booth, ''Wisden India'' editor Suresh Menon, Isa Guha, David Lloyd (cricketer, born 1947), David Lloyd, Paul Allott, Alison Mitchell, Elizabeth Ammon, Mark Butcher, Christian Ryan and Daniel Norcross. Columnists include The Daily Telegraph, Daily T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Wells (cricketer)
Bryan Douglas "Bomber" Wells (27 July 1930 – 19 June 2008) was an English cricketer. Wells was born and raised in Gloucester, and educated at local school Linden Road Secondary. He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and off-break bowler who played in 302 first-class matches between 1951 and 1965, for Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire. Wells took 998 wickets in first-class matches at an average of 24.26. Playing career Wells was known as "Bomber" after the former British heavyweight boxer " Bombardier" Billy Wells who struck the gong at the start of films made by the Rank studios. Wells was unable to retain a place in his native County side through the emergence of David Allen who was a far superior batsman. Wells had taken 122 and 123 wickets in 1955 and 1956 respectively but had a moderate season in 1957 and was not able to displace Allen or John Mortimore thereafter. Joining Nottinghamshire, the weakest county team at that time, Wells claimed 120 wickets in his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Keating (journalist)
Francis Vincent Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in ''The Guardian'' newspaper. Keating was described as "a giant of sports journalism" by journalist Phil Shaw in his obituary for ''The Independent'' newspaper."Frank Keating: Doyen of sportswriters whose work was suffused with wit and joy", ''The Independent'', 28 January 2013 Retrieved 28 January 2013 Life and career Frank Keating was born to a farming family in |
The Cricket Writers' Club
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Association Of Cricket Statisticians And Historians
The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket. Originally called the Association of Cricket Statisticians, the words "and Historians" were added in 1992 but it has continued to use the initialism ACS. The ACS headquarters were formerly in Nottingham, opposite Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, but relocated to Cardiff in 2006. Although constituted in England, the ACS has a worldwide membership and is open to anyone with a relevant interest. Origin Following the formal definition of first-class cricket by the then Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in May 1947, and particularly given ICC's statement that ''the definition does not have retrospective effect'', a number of cricket statisticians became interested in developing an agreed list of matches played before 1947 from which to compile accurate first-class records. Roy Webber published h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Lister
Simon Lister (born London, 1969) is an English author. His first book, ''Supercat'', the authorised biography of the former West Indies captain, Clive Lloyd, was published by Stephen Chalke in 2007. The book was shortlisted for the 2008 British Sports Book Awards, and the cricket correspondent of the ''Guardian'', Mike Selvey, chose it as his Book of the Year. His 2015 book ''Fire in Babylon'', about the successful West Indian cricket teams from the 1970s to the 1990s, won The Cricket Society/ MCC Book of the Year in 2016. Lister is also a regular contributor to ''The Wisden Cricketer'' magazine and has written for the ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...''. References External links * http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/dec/06/th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wagh
Mark Anant Wagh (born 20 October 1976) is a former English cricketer who played for Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham where he played alongside Anurag Singh, in the year group team two years above his own (one year above Singh's). Having originally played first-class cricket for Oxford University, captaining them in 1997 and playing against opposing captain and friend Anurag Singh in the annual Varsity Match (cricket), he made his debut for Warwickshire in the same year. He received his county cap in 2000, and was selected for the England A tour of Australia in 2001 after hitting a massive 315 at Lord's in the county season. However, whilst fellow Academy member and teammate Ian Bell has gone on to an extended England career, Wagh has not since been called up, barring an inclusion in a preliminary squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004. Whilst Wagh is principally considered a batsman and opened for Warwickshire in first-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Walker (cricketer, Born 1936)
Peter Michael Walker (17 February 1936 – 5 April 2020) was an English cricketer, who played in three Test matches for the England cricket team in 1960. Playing career Walker was born in Clifton, Bristol, England, but educated partly in South Africa. A tall right-handed middle-order batsman, a left-arm bowler who varied his pace between medium-paced seamers and slow spinners, and a spectacularly good close catcher, specialising in fielding at short-leg, he played all his county cricket for Glamorgan. For a few years at the beginning of his cricket career, he also played during the English winters for the South African provincial sides, Transvaal and Western Province. As a batsman, Walker made 1,000 runs in a season eleven times, often seeming to do well when his colleagues faltered. Nevertheless, in seventeen years of first-class cricket he made only thirteen centuries, and his career average of 26 reflected soundness rather than flair, on the unpredictable surfaces tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Rumsey
Frederick Edward Rumsey (born 4 December 1935) is an English former cricketer who founded the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA) in 1967. He played five Test matches for England against Australia, South Africa & New Zealand in the mid-1960s. Rumsey played county cricket for Worcestershire, Somerset and Derbyshire. Life and career Born 4 December 1935, Stepney, London, UK, Rumsey began his first-class career for Worcestershire against Cambridge University in 1960, his first wicket being that of future England captain Tony Lewis. He made a few more appearances over the next two years, but was largely confined to second-eleven cricket and for the 1963 season until he moved to Somerset. For six seasons Rumsey was a fixture in the Somerset side, taking a total of 547 first-class wickets at an average of 20.14, and in three seasons (1963, 1965 and 1966) reaching the 100-wicket mark. His best achievements came in 1965, when he took 8–26 against Hampshire in a low-scoring g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barclay (cricketer)
John Robert Troutbeck Barclay DL (born 22 January 1954) was an English- Hong Kong cricketer, who played internationally once for Hong Kong. John Barclay was born in Bonn, Germany. He was educated at Summer Fields School and Eton. He made his first-class debut for Sussex, while still at school in 1970. He was an opening batsman who never got quite as many runs as he should have, though having an excellent technique and eye. He also bowled off-spin, dismissing Ian Botham and Viv Richards several times. He succeeded Arnold Long as the County Captain of Sussex County Cricket Club in 1981 and led the team to second place in the County Championship (behind Nottinghamshire). The following season he led the county to first place in the John Player League, Sussex only losing one game all season. Previously he had won the Gillette Cup with Sussex in 1978, dismissing Richards, bowling 12 cheap overs, and scoring 44 in the Final. He was rated as one of the best county captains around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foot (journalist)
David Foot (24 April 1929 – 25 May 2021) was a British journalist and historian who wrote extensively on English cricket and the West Country. Foot was born in the Somerset village of East Coker and spent most of his life in Somerset and Gloucestershire. He began his journalistic career with the ''Western Gazette'' in Yeovil before moving on to the '' Bristol Evening World''. From 1962 onwards he worked largely as a freelance. In the national press he contributed primarily to ''The Guardian'' from 1971 to 2011, writing chiefly on Somerset and Gloucestershire cricket, together with some football reports and theatre reviews. He also wrote a weekly column for the ''Western Daily Press'' for about 20 years. According to Scyld Berry, he was one of the last regional writers. It was "not only the quality of his work, but the speed" with which he wrote that was remarkable.Scyld Berry, "'Footy' cast a light on secret torment of a cricketer's life", Daily Telegraph sport section, page 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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