John Arlott's Cricket Journal

The familiar voice of John Arlott, talking about cricket, with a rich Hampshire burr, has become as much part of summer as the smell of trodden grass and the taste of strawberries and cream. This account of his cricket summer in 1958 covers the building  of the English Test Team, the New Zealand Tour and Test matches and the County Championship. There are informed comments on the year’s major cricketing events – the dismissal of Wardle, the resignation of Wooller, and the choosing of the party for Australia. It attempts, too, to capture the character and something of the atmosphere of ‘shop’, both of technical and human interest, which marks the conversation of cricketers.