1906 The Complete Cricketer

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty images across forty-two plates and numerous in-text images. A detailed commentary on the game of cricket, its history, and development. Providing guides to batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy, and umpiring, as well as references to the rules of the game. Knight also includes chapters on cricket on farther shores, being mostly the Australian game, and the problems associated with modern cricket. With biographical sketches of important players of the past and present. Written by Albert Ernest Knight, an English professional cricket player. His most important contribution to the game is considered to be this book which Sir Derek Birley, in his A Social History of English Cricket, described as "a masterpiece of its kind, stuffed full of learned observations in weighty prose". With forty leaves of publisher's catalogue to the rear.