Cricket Witness No 1 - Class Peace

36 Diaspora; Cricketing Migration the United Kingdom. It is to this striking phenomenon that attention must now be turned. 1. Association of Cricket Statisticians A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles1707-1863 (1981) and Complete First-class Match-List vol 1 1801-1914 (1996) and published after much hard toil, diligent endeavour and careful debate over several years. 2. Underdown op cit pp 95-97. 3. Wynne-Thomas op cit p.64. 4. Bowen op cit chap 5, particularly p.71. 5. Eric Midwinter ‘Cricket’s Near Death Experience’ The Journal of the Cricket Society vol27 no 3 (2014) – for a fuller explanation of this phenomenon. 6. Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket (1999) pp. 83-86. 7. Ric Sissons The Players; a Social History of the Professional Cricketer (1988) provides, among much useful material, valuable potted biographies of early professionals, pp 20ff. 8. Eric Snow Country House Cricket Grounds of Leicestershire and Rutland ACS Publications (1998). 9. Christopher Brookes English Cricket (1978) C.K.Francis’s comment is quoted herein, p.145.