Dr John Broom has written books about many aspects of 20th-century warfare and culture, including Cricket in the First and Second World Wars. Dr Anthony Condon is an Australian historian. He is interested in how culture and society perform to create identities. He has published scholarly work on cricket in the mid-19th century and commentates on cricket for White Line Wireless and Guerrilla Cricket.
"""More than the interesting glance down a back alley of cricket’s past that I expected it to be. In fact it is a look at an important episode from the game’s history without which it is just possible that the red ball game we all value so highly might have disappeared a century ago. The book is highly recommended."" -- Martin Chandler * CricketWeb.net *"