Cricket's Historians

Contents Introduction 7 Chapter One The Pioneers of Cricket’s History and Statistics 11 Chapter Two Wisden challenges Lillywhite 29 Chapter Three The Influence of W.G.Grace 42 Chapter Four Test Match status is defined and Overseas Publications multiply 59 Chapter Five Ashley-Cooper, Pentelow and their Contemporaries 73 Chapter Six Some Sumptuous Volumes and County Histories 84 Chapter Seven The Cricketer Magazine 99 Chapter Eight Differences in Style 112 Chapter Nine Roy Webber and the Society of Cricket Statisticians 125 Chapter Ten Mainly County Histories and Overseas Annuals 139 Chapter Eleven More County Histories and The Cricket Society grows 154 Chapter Twelve Rowland Bowen causes Ripples 169 Chapter Thirteen The World of Cricket 183 Chapter Fourteen Bowen Bows Out 199 Chapter Fifteen The Formation of the Association of Cricket Statisticians 214 Chapter Sixteen A Rival for The Cricketer 231 Chapter Seventeen The Booming Market for Cricket Books 245 Chapter Eighteen A Spate of County Histories 261 Chapter Nineteen Biographies Multiply 274 Chapter Twenty Historians Dig Deeper 287 Appendix One Peter Wynne-Thomas 298 Appendix Two Statisticians in the Computer Age 301 Appendix Three ACS Statistician of the Year 307 Appendix Four List of ACS Officers and Committee Members 1973-2011 308 Appendix Five ACS Publications and Amendments 311 Index 331