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217 Wellington College) which explained the later Victorian schools’ embrace of ‘new athleticism’ as character-building and good for prestige, page 223. ‘Young Guard’ at Rugby: History of Rugby School , by W.H.D.Rouse (second edition, 1909), pages 326-7. Fielders knee-deep in flowers: Two Exiles: Being a Record of the Adventures of Malvern College during the War , by H.C.A.Gaunt (1946), page 40. The fictional Paul Rignold victim of ‘coaching cranks’: That Test Match , by Sir Home Gordon, (1921), page 49. Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s only match, Still Digging (1956 edition) pages 11-12. Another memoir by one of Eton’s ‘completely unteachable duffers’, left to play by themselves: Always a Countryman , by Lord Tweedsmuir (second edition, 1971), page 110-1. Chapter Twelve: Coaching Archive material: Sussex secretary W.L.Knowles letter, file AMS 5785/12, East Sussex. Leicester 1920s finance committee minutes: file DG42/7, Leicester. Colonel Hugo Meynell’s sons’ Easter coaching at Lord’s: file D861/E/8/21, Staffordshire record office, Stafford. Leicestershire club 1958 yearbook, file DE5196/2, Leicester. Packe letter to Leicestershire club secretary: file DG42/17, Leicester. Newspapers: Kent ‘nursery’, Sheffield Green Un , June 24, 1911. Coach scheme explained at Durham annual meeting: Durham County Advertiser , February 25, 1921. Sir Herbert Evershed obituary, Burton Chronicle , March 11, 1937, Magic Attic. Plaindealer story of Sir Herbert Evershed, Ashbourne Telegraph , May 21, 1926. Ted Dexter letter, Times , April 8, 1978. Charlie Parker trembled slightly in WG’s presence: Evening Sentinel , May 11, 1929, Stoke-on-Trent city archives. Holly Colvin interviewed, London Evening Standard , January 29, 2013. Books: On Sydney Barnes, Cricket on the Brain , by Bernard Hollowood, (1970), page 141. ‘Watch the ball’: Come in Number Three, by David Steele (1977), page 13. Nursery at Derby: The Rise of Derbyshire Cricket 1919-1935, by Major Llewellyn Eardley- Simpson, (1936), page 8. Canny Mat Wright: The Way The Wind Blows (1976), by Lord Home, page 32. Astonishing what the keen observer can learn: Cricket Hints by Alfred Dipper (1926), page 25. Best players born – not coached: title of chapter two of Big Cricket , by Patsy Hendren (1934). Derek Randall on his ‘right connections’: The Young Player’s Guide to Cricket (1980), page 18. On ‘scouting and coaching’, page 19. The Andrew Flintoff Academy: see online. Chapter Thirteen: Selection and Recruitment Archive material: Leicestershire club selection committee minutes: file DG42/17, Leicester. John Haywood letter to E.E.Snow: DE 5886/12, Leicester. Eton’s sorry display at Lord’s: file D272/3/15, Lichfield. Newspapers: Plaindealer on Derbyshire bat about good enough to be ‘eighth for Cubley’: Ashbourne Telegraph , July 7, 1933. George Shingler’s ‘gameness’ praised: Leicester Sports Mercury , June 26, 1920. Golf takes its toll: The Field , July 10, 1937. Books: Many trained, few chosen: The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy , by Peter Burke (1987 edition), page 82. Memoirs with revealing titles: Cricket Triumphs and Troubles , by Cecil Parkin (1936), Cricket’s Secret History by Wally Hammond (1952), Cricket Crossfire by Keith Miller (1956), Boycott on Cricket by Geoff Boycott (1990), and The Breaks are Off: My Autobiography , by Graeme Swann (2011). Selector difficulties: History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949 by J.M.Kilburn (1950), page 331. County cricket took three years to learn: Spinner’s Wicket , by Ray Illingworth (1969), page 23. Five years to become a captain: For Yorkshire and England , by Herbert Sutcliffe (1935), page 115. Tony Brown not really good enough: Surrey Cricket Clubs Championships Association yearbook 1974, pages 21-27. Sources