A Good Innings III “Look after that shine please!” John Blomley, Brilliant Swing Bowler Attribution: Wiki Commons I have explained earlier, in my personal cricket narrative, that in 1958 I gave up my sporting ambition and returned to teaching. My appointment at a one-teacher school in the outer reaches of the Hunter Valley, with week-dayContinue reading “Memories Of A Second Class Cricketer”
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Memories of a Second Class Cricketer
A Good Innings II One of the most captivating aspects of the Victorian age was its tendency to confuse issues which ought not to have any logical connection at all. Among these the concept of the Gentleman loomed like a cloud over the landscape, permeating every backwater of social intercourse, tilting the balance of debate.Continue reading “Memories of a Second Class Cricketer”
Memories of a Second Class Cricketer
A Good Innings I Because cricket was for many years my chief escape from what are sometimes laughingly called serious affairs, I promised myself I would never write about it. This is the seventh book I promised never to write. Benny Green A History of Cricket Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1988. For my agnostic father Alex,Continue reading “Memories of a Second Class Cricketer”
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 