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A Flick of the Fingers: The Chequered Life and Career of Jack Crawford
Michael Burns
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Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, assorted mono pictures. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Thanks to his discovery of a collection of scrapbooks and memorabilia, writer and filmmaker Michael Burns is able to relate for the first time the remarkable story of Surrey and England cricketer Jack Crawford. A schoolboy prodigy who took Edwardian cricket by storm, the amateur all-rounder became Surrey's youngest ever centurion and, at 19 years and 32 days, England's youngest Test player. However, a row over captaining a weakened team against the Australians led to a spectacular fallout - and a life ban by his county. Emigration to Australia ensued, where Crawford established himself as one of the world's great ... Read more
Thanks to his discovery of a collection of scrapbooks and memorabilia, writer and filmmaker Michael Burns is able to relate for the first time the remarkable story of Surrey and England cricketer Jack Crawford. A schoolboy prodigy who took Edwardian cricket by storm, the amateur all-rounder became Surrey's youngest ever centurion and, at 19 years and 32 days, England's youngest Test player. However, a row over captaining a weakened team against the Australians led to a spectacular fallout - and a life ban by his county. Emigration to Australia ensued, where Crawford established himself as one of the world's great ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Hove, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785310096
SKU
V9781785310096
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Ref
99-5
About Michael Burns
As a filmmaker, Michael Burns has produced nine cricket films, while he is also the author of a centenary history of his local club, Malden Wanderers, and articles for Wisden Cricket Monthly and the MCC Magazine. A Gentleman Cricketer, one of the four documentaries Michael has made for MCC, won the 2008 Cricket Society Media Award.
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