Who Only Cricket Know

David Woodhouse's (dormant) cricket account. Same handle on Bluesky.

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

The multi-award-winning @CricketKnow is now out in paperback and available direct from the independent publisher @FairfieldBooks_ , who are offering a range of discounts on their excellent line-up of cricket writing
https://t.co/gAKWACTbxP

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@frankwatson58 Ah, David Banks. One of my favourite players.

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@frankwatson58 Collis King?

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Looking forward to Cricket Across Dark Waters, out early next year, on the Tests and ties between West Indies and India

[Arunabha Sengupta @senantix]

Enjoyed at LansdownCC & @CricketSociety with Stephen Chalke Vic Marks Stephen Brenkley Simon Lister & @Cricketknow
Signed copies of Sherlock & spoke of #cricketacrossdarkwaters @RWhitehead61 @davidkelly56 were there Met @fredfertang & @AnnieChave (2nd pic snagged from her acct)

[The Nightwatchman @NightwatchmanXI]

Wednesday November 20 is the West of England Cricket Society cricket book day at Lansdown CC, Bath, including @FairfieldBooks_ founder Stephen Chalke interviewing Simon Lister, Stephen Brenkley and David Woodhouse.

Email [email protected] for full info and lunch menu.

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

My bit this time in the "50 Books" column covers PG Wodehouse, Hornung's Raffles and the Waugh brothers (Alec and Evelyn not Mark and Steve), coincidentally discussed by Eric Midwinter in the latest @ACScricket Cricket Statistician also just out

[The Nightwatchman @NightwatchmanXI]

Wisden Cricket Monthly Issue 82 is out now in both print and digital, featuring writing from @melindafarrell, @cameronponsonby, @miller_cricket, @SightScreenCJ and more

Print: https://t.co/CpPXWnLMXf

Digital: https://t.co/p1g1dLN95g

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@annajoubert @exitthelemming Cheered me up listening to an omnibus of these on @Radio4Extra this morning. Written and read with beautiful comic timing. Plus the bonus of the inimitable announcer's voice of Peter Donaldson introducing each splendid episode.

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Most neutrals wanted Somerset to win the #CountyChamp, but hats off to Surrey for 3 in a row. Good to see the ECB highlighting the closing stages of its most storied competition rather than arranging some meaningless international games to clash with it as well as Blast ... oh

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

I hope I haven't been too harsh on Kilburn for trying to out-Cardus Cardus in this book but, reading it again for @MattersCounty, I'd forgotten quite how "literary" he is trying to be in many of the essays: there is not so much of the economical prose of his maturity

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@frankwatson58 @WorcsCCC @EssexCricket @BBCEssexSport @BBCSport Thanks to you and @BBCEssexSport for the great commentary over the last 4 days: obviously from a partisan @WorcsCCC point of view an epic comeback but also - to use an old cliche apparently now banned in the ECB marketing department - what an advert for four-day #countycricket

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@frankwatson58 @WorcsCCC @WarwickshireCCC @BBCSport My grandfather always waxed lyrical about Eric Hollies and Roly Jenkins, the greatest Bear and Pear wrist-spinners and two of the greatest characters in county cricket

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Many thanks to @archivist_al for his recent invaluable help, pointing me to an important file in the MCC Archive for a piece in @TheCricketerMag on George Headley, and to the gems on leg-spin in the MCC Library for a 50 Books article on CS Marriott @WisdenCricket

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Happy birthday Sir Frank. As @ListerProd points out in the @BBCr4today piece, the first sportsman to receive a memorial service in Westminster Abbey - and also the first to bring so many well-wishers onto the streets of Melbourne as the first tenured black captain of West Indies.

[Nick Stewart @colonelstewart]

Brief but excellent piece on Sir Frank Worrell @windiescricket captain of 1963 winning team to UK. Died much too young at 42 but one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century @amolrajan @BBCr4today @Emmabarnett

[The Long Seventies Podcast @longseventies]

Tune in August 1st for our episode with Colin Babb about his fantastic book on the complex cultural world of Cricket. This was an extremely interesting conversation that took us in a lot of directions and I found out Alex knows way more about sports than I thought. Buy the book at the link below!

[Fairfield Books @FairfieldBooks_]

ICYMI: @norcrosscricket and David Woodhouse discussed the multi award-winning WOCK (@CricketKnow) and the tumultuous and gripping 1953/54 series during the Trent Bridge Test

Find the chat at 5.43.10

https://t.co/Sd0BEstHM2

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

No better prelude to the #ENGvWI series than @ListerProd's eloquent and moving tribute to Sir Frank Worrell at last night's @CricketSociety dinner - Simon was joined by guest of honour Clem Seecharan for the Q and A

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Includes Poet Laureate and Nobel Laureate XIs to play Mars, along with a Playwright XI: Barrie, Travers, Sherriff, Rattigan, Harwood, Gray, Stoppard, Ayckbourn, Brenton, Hare, Bean (Beckett and Pinter unavailable as playing for Nobel XI)

[The Nightwatchman @NightwatchmanXI]

Issue 46 of The Nightwatchman is out now in both print and digital, featuring wonderful writing from @mattapple1, @nicholas_hogg, @CricketKnow, @MelanieVerwoerd, @MenarySteve and more.

Print: https://t.co/PtKugv3Hmm

Digital: https://t.co/HOJOmLiV3y

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Includes my bit on John Nyren: 'If the Hambledon era represented what The Cricketers of My Time calls a "total revolution" in cricket technique, the book began a revolution in cricket writing because of its sense of occasion, character, period and place'

[Wisden @WisdenCricket]

In the new issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out June 6, we celebrate James Anderson’s extraordinary, unrepeatable career by tracking his progress from greenhorn tearaway to England’s greatest bowler of all time.

Magazine preview:

https://t.co/EqYDnEk4J3

[Richard Jones @richardjones441]

Monumental effort from the @WorcsCCC boys at Kent over the last couple of days given everything that’s happened. They really are a special group of men.

#JB33 💚

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

Includes the third in 'The Story of Cricket in 50 Books' series, on Playing Away by Caryl Phillips

[Wisden @WisdenCricket]

🚨NEW MAGAZINE 🚨

- A performance special with Pope, Knight, Rashid and Jack Russell
- @melindafarrell's exclusive interview with Dean Elgar
-@Jo_Wisden investigates what it’s like to be a neurodiverse cricketer
+ much, much more

https://t.co/CiOxeNhu3r

[Who Only Cricket Know @CricketKnow]

@WisdenAlmanack Doug Ibbotson's appreciation in the 1988 Almanack a reminder of one of the curiosities of Deadly's career: his best analysis (9-28) and highest score (111) both at Hastings, 20 years apart