Gubby Under Pressure

About the Author Brian Rendell saw his first Test match in 1946 at Lord’s, followed by several visits during the ‘golden summer’ of 1947, and had the good fortune to see Bradman score 98 against MCC, as well as a century at The Oval, in 1948. He has remained a student of cricket for over sixty years. He is the author of Gubby Allen; Bad Boy of Bodyline? published by Cricket Lore in 2004, his first book, based on exclusive access to private letters written by Allen during the MCC tours of Australia and New Zealand in 1932/33 and 1936/37. Brian is a member of both the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and the Cricket Society. His other interests include Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Southwark, English and Spanish football, racketball, and the Rolling Stones. He retired in 2000 after a thirty-year career in newspaper and magazine publishing, plus ten years in local education.