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495: David Woodhouse: Len Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54 PART TWO
495: David Woodhouse: Len Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54 PART TWO
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34 minutes
Released:
Jan 28, 2022
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Podcast episode
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The Cricket Badger, James Buttler, is joined by author David Woodhouse to talk about his book 'WHO ONLY CRICKET KNOW - Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54'.
Who Only Cricket Know tells the story of the second most controversial tour in English cricket history after Bodyline and has not been revisited since two tour books came out in the immediate aftermath. The cricket is dramatic, the key characters fascinating, and it is awash with incidents on and off the field, many of them involving race and social class.
This was the first tour in which MCC travelled by plane (although they returned home on the boat) and the first in they were captained by a professional player – Len Hutton. It was also Hutton’s Yorkshire teammate Fred Trueman’s debut tour and for the opposition, the Three Ws were in their pomp and a young man called Garfield Sobers made his international bow.
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Who Only Cricket Know tells the story of the second most controversial tour in English cricket history after Bodyline and has not been revisited since two tour books came out in the immediate aftermath. The cricket is dramatic, the key characters fascinating, and it is awash with incidents on and off the field, many of them involving race and social class.
This was the first tour in which MCC travelled by plane (although they returned home on the boat) and the first in they were captained by a professional player – Len Hutton. It was also Hutton’s Yorkshire teammate Fred Trueman’s debut tour and for the opposition, the Three Ws were in their pomp and a young man called Garfield Sobers made his international bow.
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Released:
Jan 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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