Cricketing Lives: Maurice Tate

This is one of the first volumes in a series of ‘lives’ of the great ones of cricket.

They are, the publishers believe, little biographies in the grand manner. Each author has been asked to write a short essay on his self-chosen ‘hero’, to write out of his affection and enthusiasm for one man.

Here John Arlott, famous over the world as broadcaster and sports writer, conjures up his memory of Maurice Tate. In other books now available Laurence Meynell writes on ‘Plum’ Warner, Denzil Batchelor on C B Fry and Philip Lindsay on Don Bradman,

Each contains full details of both life and achievement and has four photographs, including a frontispiece portrait. They are intended for and will please not the enthusiast alone but, too, the general reader who remembers the time-blessed wedding of English sport and fine writing.