A Game Sustained

3 Contents Introduction 5 Chapter 1 Cricket, war and the 8 ethical dilemma Chapter 2 Keeping going: 1914-1915 18 Chapter 3 Shocks to the system: 1916 64 Chapter 4 Running out of steam: 1917 87 Chapter 5 Struggling through to the end: 1918 104 Chapter 6 Getting cricket back on its feet: winter 1918/19 122 Chapter 7 A wonderful relief: 1919 134 Chapter 8 Renewed joy: 1920 156 Chapter 9 Concluding thoughts: Cricket, Yorkshire and the Great War 168 Main matches involving Yorkshire county players 1915-18 181 Acknowledgements 184 Bibliography 186 Endnotes 188 Index 191