Lord Tennyson knew that there was bowling, and something called stumping, involved in cricket, but...
Eton won the match against Lord Byron’s Harrow and followed it with a poem to rub it in. Byron rose to the challenge.
There is evidence to suggest that Elizabeth Barrett Browning played a bit of cricket at Colwall Green, under the Malvern Hills.
The foreword makes this a truly incredible volume. It is by none other than AB de Villiers.
George Orwell drew firm boundaries between cricket and war in a scathing letter.
Lord Byron had a club foot. However, he did venture onto the cricket pitch in the rather prestigious Eton vs Harrow encounter of 1805.
If ever there was a head-on contest between two legends that decided the outcome of a game poised on knife’s edge, India vs Australia at Chennai in 1998 was such a game.
Benjamin Aislabie averaged 3.15 with bat and neither bowled nor fielded. However, he found a mention in Tom Brown’s School Days.
Edward Phillips Jr, perhaps unknowingly, made the first mention of a cricket ball in literature.
Cyril Ritchard, born December 1, 1898, was a famed Australian stage, screen and television actor and director.