The Summer Field

3 Contents Chapter One Chimneys and fields 5 Chapter Two Clubbing together 13 Chapter Three Making the grades 21 Chapter Four What Was Cricket Like? 29 Chapter Five Why Cricket? 39 Chapter Six Who Was a Cricketer? 49 Chapter Seven Private Life 55 Chapter Eight The Myth of the ‘Golden Age’ 68 Chapter Nine Journalism 78 Chapter Ten Australia 87 Chapter Eleven Schooling 96 Chapter Twelve Coaching 105 Chapter Thirteen Selection and recruitment 113 Chapter Fourteen Captaincy and command 120 Chapter Fifteen Batting and bowling 127 Chapter Sixteen Fielding and Wicketkeeping 138 Chapter Seventeen Umpiring and Scoring 145 Chapter Eighteen Pitches 151 Chapter Nineteen Watching 158 Chapter Twenty Women 169 Chapter Twenty-one Renewal 176 Chapter Twenty-two Modern changes 183 Chapter Twenty-three To the present and beyond 192 Chapter Twenty-four Into the void 206 Thanks 212 Sources 213 Index 223