Two reviews

Martin Chandler on a recent pair of ACS books

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Ernest Parker: Not a Love Story

“With Ernest Parker the ACS Lives in Cricket series reaches 60, so you know from that the book is a cricketing biography. Does an Australian subject appeal? There haven’t been many Aussies, so the answer to that one must be yes, but the fact that Parker was a Western Australian, all of whose 16 First Class matches were played the best part of forty years before Western Australia joined the Sheffield Shield, will put some off.”

Find out whether it put off this reviewer here. The book is available here.

You Can’t Hurry Us: A History of Cricket in Suffolk

“Just in case anyone else does the same thing I did, I will begin by underlining the sub-title in this one. I initially misread that as meaning not what it actually says but, presumably, what my brain expected it to say. Thus I was expecting and, I have to confess not particularly looking forward to, a history of the Suffolk County Cricket Club.”

Martin Chandler corrects himself here. The book is available here.

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