Cricketers of my Time - E W Swanton

E.W. Swanton wrote and commented on cricket for many years and wrote the cricketing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph from 1947 until his own sad death. In Cricketers of My Time he selected over seventy of the obituaries that meant the most to him – tributes on the likes of Percy Chapman, Denis Compton, Harold Larwood, Walter Hammond and many more besides – and brought them together in a volume that all lovers of the sport will treasure.

These authoritative essays, all edited and updated by Swanton himself, include his thoughts on S.F. Barnes, Lindsay Hassett, Jack Hobbs, Brian Johnston, Peter May, Bill O’Reilly, Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Frank Worrell, for whom he gave the memorial address.

With such a wealth and breadth of material spanning the truly great years of British and international cricket, this important book is a tribute to not only those many fine cricketers celebrated in the text, but also to one of Britain’s finest sports journalists.