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Cricket Xmas presents

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Inside Forward

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Any good ones? A bit sparse for me this Xmas. I got a book by Vic Marks on the cricket captains of England 1979-2025 and a couple of balls to use in the nets when practice starts.
 

The Breen Machine said:
Ashley Giles' autobiography and Duncan Hamilton's biography of Harold Larwood.
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I read the Larwood book on holiday in September and couldnā€™t put it down.

Apparently there is a statue of him in the town he grew up in which is probably less than an hour from where I live. I often think about driving up there to have a look at it when Iā€™m sitting around bored but Iā€™ve not got round to it yet.
 
I got a Jelly Cat cricket ball with a cricket hat from the kids, like this one:

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I put him in the Christmas tree šŸŽ„ but will probably go in the car when the tree comes down, if I can persuade my seamstress to fit a loop.
 
None of my living relatives understand cricket so Iā€™m unlikely to receive a present in that ilk. However a great present for somebody would be ā€œField of Shadows.ā€ by Dan Waddell about the 1937 tour of Germany by the Gentlemen of Worcestershire.
 
Inside Forward said:
I read the Larwood book on holiday in September and couldnā€™t put it down.

Apparently there is a statue of him in the town he grew up in which is probably less than an hour from where I live. I often think about driving up there to have a look at it when Iā€™m sitting around bored but Iā€™ve not got round to it yet.
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I started reading over the weekend and also can't put it down, it is fantastic and a great insight into an era completely alien to most of us.
 
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