Cricket's Historians

124 Differences in Style (1878-1938) which was a basic statistical record of the matches named in the title. In 1944 he published at his own expense Gloucestershire Cricket and Cricketers , a 36 page paperback, which rather curiously is simply a narrative covering Gloucestershire’s performances in the inter-war years. His modest Foreword comments: ‘If it be read at all, Gloucestershire men will read it and for them it will contain little that is new.’ His Wisden Index was useful in that it listed in alphabetical order all the obituaries which the almanacks had contained over the years. Pogson died in Lytham St Annes in April 1976, aged 61. Sporting Handbooks also issued Pelham Warner’s Cricket Between two Wars in 1942, but due to paper rationing the type of reference work (such as Ashley-Cooper’s books on the Graces) that appeared during the 1914-18 war were nowhere to be seen during the 1939-45 conflict. It is interesting however to look at the list of ‘books in print’ that was included in the early wartime Wisden’s – there was a great deal on offer.