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221 1933. Week at Colwall: Yorkshire Post , August 23, 1937. Verdicts on Tests: The Field , July 17 and 24, 1937. Books: Girl playing against men rather fun: Maiden Over , by Charles Hatton (1955), page 14. Chapter Twenty-One: Renewal Archive material: Leicestershire club’s foiled speedway plan: file DG42/7, Leicester. MCC rules: file DE 5886/1, Leicester. Newspapers: Appeals for brighter cricket: Manchester Guardian , January 28, 1937. (Lord Hawke): Wolverhampton Express and Star , May 4, 1938 (Earl of Dartmouth). Nothing wrong with modern cricket: Times , February 17, 1943. Fourth Victory Test slow but interesting: Lancashire Evening Post , August 9, 1945. Cup crowds: Lichfield Mercury , July 17, 1936; and Tamworth Herald , July 27, 1946. Kerridge Cup: Durham County News , July 13, 1933. County treadmill: London Evening Standard , July 9, 1934. Indoor competition: Times , April 24, 1978. Derbyshire’s small gate against Surrey: Derby Evening Telegraph, June 26, 1954. Sports must change: Times , April 25, 1963. Times editorial on 100 th Wisden, April 17, 1963. Fading as in United States? New Society , August 4, 1966, on open shelves at Manchester central library. Books: Roots with the past cut: Religion and the Decline of Magic , by Sir Keith Thomas (1973 edition), page 719. Ken Barrington’s car driving: Playing it Straight (1968), page 92. Rait Kerr’s speech, for instance, carried in Hampshire’s 1952 handbook. Yorkshire cricket defined: History of Yorkshire 1924-1949 by J.M.Kilburn (1950), page 4. Chapter Twenty-Two: Modern Changes Archive material: Regret over Sunday use of ground: file DDX1003/1/1/6, Beverley. Newspapers: Joe Illingworth’s telephone interview with Sir Pelham Warner: Yorkshire Post , October 3, 1961. John Woodcock’s first Gillette Cup final reports: Times , September 9, 1963; September 7, 1964; September 6, 1965; September 4, 1967; September 9, 1968; and September 8, 1969. New Society on the declining game: June 20, 1968; and August 26, 1971. Barnes and Jardine in Sunday match: Bridgnorth Journal , August 20, 1938. For early night cricket: Wisden Cricket Monthly , November 1980; Essex 1981 handbook, pages 81-4; and various national newspapers, August 15, 1980. Captains of Shropshire and Warwickshire interviewed: Shropshire Magazine , April 1990. Game in medium-pace stranglehold: New Society , August 13, 1970. Fast bowling boredom: Observer , June 19, 1988. Books: poking time-wasting batsman: A Cotswold Village by J.Arthur Gibbs (third edition, 1909), pages 240-1. Sunday league ‘folly’: Cricket on the Brain by Bernard Hollowood (1970), page 171. Cricket ‘always broke’: All About Cricket by Brian Johnston (1972), page 28. Stuart Turner on Sunday league: Essex 1982 handbook, pages 88-9. Club Cricket Conference clubs’ playing days, counted from official handbook. Sunday League match at Moreton-in-Marsh, 1986: A Cotswold Country Diary , by Gordon Ottewell (1989), page 19. Donald Carr’s only one-day match for Derbyshire: telephone interview. Chapter Twenty-Three: To The Present and Beyond Archive material: Leicestershire jubilee book, file DE5051/6, Leicester. De Trafford letter from Gozo: file DE5886/1, Leicester. Cricket in 1920 only for new rich?: file DDF A5/13/424, Hull. Chittagong bombs, shots: Hansard , February 12, 1934; and Times , January 8, 1934. Newspapers: Lord’s in 2230: Cricketer , May 3, 1930. Hutton against comparing generations: Observer , October 9, 1983. Sutcliffe on cricket tending to improve: Leicester Sports Mercury , July 5, 1924. Players over-managed?: Observer , July 2, 1989; and City AM , April 2, 2014. Benaud on broadcasting: New Society , June 3, 1976. Sources