Who Only Cricket Know

Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54

David Woodhouse

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Fairfield Books
08 November 2021

Sports & outdoor recreation; Cricket

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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. David Woodhouse has meticulously researched every aspect of the tour as well as carrying out a number of

interviews, retaining the nuances and subtleties of the different levels of the story. He takes us through the

lead-up to the tour, the warm-up games and the five Test matches, as well as the recriminations that took

place both at Lord’s and in the West Indies in the tour’s aftermath.

By: David Woodhouse
Imprint: Fairfield Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781909811591
ISBN 10: 1909811599
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 08 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active