Lives in Cricket No 37 - William Clarke

Contents Introduction 5 Chapter One Tracing Clarke’s Early Life 8 Chapter Two Clarke as a Bowler 17 Chapter Three The 1820s 24 Chapter Four Onward and Upward 32 Chapter Five First Matches with Sussex and the Consequences 36 Chapter Six Fate Takes a Hand 41 Chapter Seven Leaving Trent Bridge 56 Chapter Eight Incredible Success of the All-England Eleven 67 Chapter Nine Controversy 91 Chapter Ten The Last Summers 106 Chapter Eleven Postscript 111 Acknowledgements 115 Bibliography 116 Appendix One Career Statistics 117 Appendix Two Practical Hints on Cricket 123 Appendix Three The All-England Eleven Song 133 Index 134 3