List of cricket commentators

This is a list of notable media commentators and writers on the sport of cricket from around the world.

A number of famous players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game. The following is a list of the cricket commentators, including name, nationality, Broadcaster/Publication and other careers.

NameFirst-class / List A careerBroadcaster/Publication
Russel Arnold Sri Lanka 1997-2007
Nondescripts Cricket Club 1993-2007
World XI
Chennai Superstars
TEN Sports 2009–present
Star Sports Tamil 2019–present
Ranil Abeynaike Bedfordshire 1982
Sinhalese Sports Club 1989–1990
TEN Sports 2004–2011
Nimbus Sport 2006–2011
Karunaratne Abeysekera None Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Roshan Abeysinghe None TEN Sports 2010–present
H. D. Ackerman South Africa 1998 SuperSport (Super Cricket)
Jonathan Agnew Leicestershire 1978–1990, 1992
England 1984–1985
BBC (Test Match Special) 1991–present
The People 1990–1991
BBC Television 1999, 2006–2009
ABC ?-present
Wasim Akram Pakistan 1985–2003 ESPN Star Sports 2003-2015
Channel 4 1999-2002
Terry Alderman Western Australia 1974–1963
Australia 1981–1991
Kent 1984–1986
Gloucestershire 1988
ABC (Grandstand) 1993-present[1]
Paul Allott Lancashire 1978–1991
England 1981–1985
BBC Television 1994–1995
Sky Sports 1995–present
Rex Alston (1901–1994) None BBC Radio 1945–1957[2]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–1964[2]
John Arlott (1914–1991) None BBC Radio 1946–1957[3][4]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–1980[4]
The Guardian 1968–1980
Athar Ali Khan Bangladesh 1988–1998 Independent Television 2013–present
Nimbus Sport
Mike Atherton Lancashire 1987–2001
England 1989–2001
Channel 4 2002–2005
Sunday Telegraph
The Times
TalkSPORT 2004–2005
Sky Sports 2005–present
Trevor Bailey (1923 - 2011) Essex 1946–1967
England 1949–1959
BBC (Test Match Special) 1967–1999[5]
Jack Bannister (1930 - 2016) Warwickshire 1950–1968 BBC Television 1984–1998
TalkSPORT 2001–2015
Richie Benaud (1930-2015) New South Wales 1948–1964
Australia 1952–1964
BBC Television 1960–1999, 2007[6]
Channel 9 1977–2013[7]
Channel 4 1999–2005[6]
Channel 5 2009[8]
Harsha Bhogle None ABC 1991–present
ESPN Star Sports 1995–
BBC 1998–
Fox Cricket 2018-
Ian Bishop West Indies 1989–1998 Sky Sports 2005–present
Channel 4 2000-2004
SABC Television 2005–2008
Channel 5 2007-2009
Greg Blewett South Australia 1991–2007
Australia 1995–2000
Sky Sports 2009–
Seven Network 2018-
Henry Blofeld Cambridge University 1958–1960 ITV 1966-1969
BBC (Test Match Special) 1972–1991, 1994–2017[9][10]
Sky Sports 1991–1992[9]
Sir Ian Botham Somerset 1974–1985
Worcestershire 1986–1991
Durham 1992–1993
England 1976–1992
BBC Television 1994–1995

Sky Sports 1995–2019[11][12]

Sir Geoffrey Boycott Yorkshire 1962–1986
England 1964–1982
Sky Sports 1990–1998
BBC Television 1993–1998
TalkSPORT 1998–2003
Channel 4 2004–2005
BBC (Test Match Special) 2005–2020[13]
Channel 5 2006–2020
James Brayshaw Western Australia 1987–1990
South Australia 1990–1997
Nine Network 2007–2016[14]
Freddie Brown (1910–1991) England 1931–1953 BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–69
Mark Butcher Surrey 1992–2009
England 1997–2004
talkSPORT 2018–2019[15]
ITV Sport 2010-2014
Sky Sports 2018-present
Jim Burke Australia 1951–1959
Chris Cairns New Zealand 1989–2004 Fox Sports Australia 2012–present
Greg Chappell [lower-alpha 1] South Australia 1966–1973
Queensland 1973–1984
Somerset 1968–1969
Australia 1970–1984
Channel 9 1989–1994
Ian Chappell [lower-alpha 1] South Australia 1961–1980
Lancashire 1963
Australia 1964–1980
Channel 9 1980–2018[16]
ESPN Star sports 2007–present
Channel 5 2009
Michael Charlton None ABC 1954–?[17]
BBC Radio 1956 (Ashes series)[17][18]
Nimbus Sport
Charles Colville None Sky Sports 1990–present
Denis Compton (1918–1997) England 1937–1957
Middlesex 1936-58
BBC Television 1958–75
Sunday Express
Jeremy Coney Wellington 1971–1987
New Zealand 1974–1987
Sports Roundup/Radio Sport 1990–2000
Sky Sport 2004
Sir Alastair Cook Bedfordshire 2002
Essex 2003-present
England 2006–2018
BBC (Test Match Special) 2019-present[19]

BBC Television 2020-present

Dominic Cork Derbyshire 1990–2003
Lancashire 2004–2008
Hampshire 2009–2011
England 1992–2002
BBC (Test Match Special) 2010 –present
Pakistan Television Corporation 2009–present
Talksport 2013–present
Sky Sports 2011–present
Jamie Cox Tasmania 1987–2005
Tony Cozier (1940–2016) None Barbados Daily News 1961–1969
Nine Network 1977–1992
ABC ?–?
Sky Sports
BBC (Test Match Special) 1966–2015[20]
Peter Cranmer (1914–1994) Warwickshire 1934–1954 BBC (Test Match Special) 1965–1968 [21]
Martin Crowe (1962 - 2016) New Zealand 1982–1995 Sky Sport 2006
Craig Cumming Canterbury 1995–2000
Otago 2000–2015
New Zealand 2005–2009
Sky Sport 2014
Aravinda De Silva Sri Lanka 1984–2003 Sky Sports 2006
Ted Dexter Sussex 1956–1968
England 1958–1968
BBC Television 1968-19??
Allan Donald South Africa 1991–2003
Simon Doull New Zealand 1992–2000 Sky Sport 2006–
Rahul Dravid Karnataka 1990–2012
Kent 2000
Scotland 2003
Royal Challengers Bangalore 2008–2010
Rajasthan Royals 2011–2013
India 1996–2012
ESPN Star sports 2012–present
ABC 2014–present
BCCI 2012–present
Jeff Dujon Jamaica 1974–1993
West Indies 1981–1991
Sky Sports
Matthew Engel None The Guardian
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Farokh Engineer India 1961–1975 BBC (Test Match Special)
Percy Fender (1892–1985) Sussex 1910–1913
Surrey 1914–1935
MCC 1920–1936
England 1921–1929
BBC Television 1946–? [22]
Ranjit Fernando Ceylon 1964–1978
Sri Lanka 1975
Ten Sports 2004–2009
Jack Fingleton New South Wales 1928–1940
Australia 1932–1938
Kate Fitzpatrick None Channel 9 (Australia) 1983[23][24]
Damien Fleming Australia 1994–2001 ABC ?-present
Fox Sports 2010-2012
Channel 7 2018-present[25]
Channel 10 2013-2017
Tom Fordyce None BBC Live Text
Charles Fortune None SABC
Graeme 'Foxy' Fowler Lancashire 1979–1991
Durham 1992–1994
England 1982–1985
BBC (Test Match Special) 1994–2005
Angus Fraser Middlesex 1984–2002
England 1989–1999
BBC (Test Match Special)
The Independent 2002–
David Frith None The Cricketer
Wisden Cricket Monthly 1979–1996
C. B. Fry Oxford University 1892–1895
Sussex 1894–1908
England 1895–1912
BBC Radio 1936–?
Sourav Ganguly Bengal 1989–2012
Lancashire 2000
Kolkata Knight Riders 2008–2010
Pune Warriors India 2011–2012
India 1992–2008
ESPN Star sports 2010–present
BCCI 2012–present
Mike Gatting Middlesex 1975–1998
England 1977–1994
BBC (Test Match Special)
Sunil Gavaskar Mumbai 1966–1988
Somerset 1980
India 1971–1987
ESPN Star Sports 1992–
BCCI
BBC (Test Match Special)
SuperSport 2018[26]
Alan Gibson (1923–1997) None BBC (Test Match Special) 1962–1975
The Times
Adam Gilchrist New South Wales 1992–1994
Western Australia 1994–2008
Deccan Chargers 2008–2010
Middlesex 2010
Kings XI Punjab 2011–2013
Fox Sports 2018-present[25]
Arthur Gilligan (1894–1976) Cambridge University 1919–1920
Surrey 1919
Sussex 1920–1932
England 1922–1925
ABC[27]
Rev. Frank Gillingham (1875–1953) Essex 1903–1928 BBC Radio 1927–?[28][29]
Graham Gooch Essex 1973–2000
England 1978–1992
BBC (Test Match Special) 2002–2009
Darren Gough Yorkshire 1989–2003; 2007–2008
Essex 2004–2006
England 1994–2006
talkSPORT 2018–2019[15]
David Gower Leicestershire 1975–1989
Hampshire 1990–1993
England 1978–1992
BBC Television1995–1999
Sky Sports 1999–2019[12]
Sunday Times
Tom Graveney (1927 - 2015) England 1951–1969
Tony Greig (1946 - 2012) Sussex 1966–1978
England 1972–1977
Nine Network 1979–2012
Channel 4 2005
TEN Sports
Isa Guha Thames Valley 1998–1999
Berkshire 2000–present
England 2002–2011
Fox Sports 2018–present[30]

ITV Sport 2010-2014
BBC (Test Match Special) -present
Sky Sports 2015-2019
BBC Television 2020-present

Alex Hartley Lancashire 2008-2012
Middlesex 2013-2016
Surrey Stars 2016
Lancashire 2017-present
England 2016-present
BBC (Test Match Special) 2020-present[31]
Bob Harvie None Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Mike Haysman Leicestershire SuperSport (Super Cricket)
TEN Sports
Ian Healy Queensland 1986–1999
Australia 1988–1999
Channel 9 1999–present[32]
Fox Sports 2018–present[32][33]
Michael Holding West Indies 1975–1987 Sky Sports
Nine Network 1992–present
David Hookes South Australia 1975–1992
Australia 1977–1986
Robert Hudson (1920—2010) [lower-alpha 2] None BBC Television 1949–1950, 1962–1964
BBC (Test Match Special) 1958, 1962–1968[34]
Simon Hughes Middlesex 1980–1992
Durham 1992–1993
The Independent
Daily Telegraph
Channel 4 1999–2005[35]
Channel 5 2006–2017[35]
BBC (Test Match Special) 2007–present
Nasser Hussain Essex 1987–2004
England 1989–2004
Sky Sports 2004–present
Michael Hussey [lower-alpha 3] Western Australia 2004–2013
Australia 2004–2013
Fox Sports 2018-present[36]
Ray Illingworth England 1958–1973 BBC Television 1984-1993
Robin Jackman (1945–2020) England 1974–1983 SuperSport (Super Cricket)
Mahela Jayawardene Sinhalese Sports Club 1995–2015
Sri Lanka 1997–2004
talkSPORT 2018–2019[15]
Brian Johnston (1912–1994) None BBC Television 1946–1970[37]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1966–1994[38][37]
Dean Jones Australia 1984–1992 ABC
TEN Sports 2003–2006[39][40]
Zee Sports 2007–2008 (Indian Cricket League)
NDTV 24x7 2010
Star Sports 2018–present (Select Dugout)
Rob Key Kent 1998-2016
England 2002-2009
Sky Sports 2012–present
Nick Knight Warwickshire 1991–2006
England 1995–2003
Sky Sports 2006–present
Jim Laker England 1948–1959 ITV 1966-1968
BBC Television 1969–1985
Arun Lal India 1982–1989 Nimbus Sport 2003–
TEN Sports 2010–
Gavin Larsen Wellington 1984–1999
New Zealand 1990–1999
Geoff Lawson Australia 1989–2004 ABC ?-present
Bill Lawry Victoria 1955–1972
Australia 1961–1971
Channel 9 1977–2018[41][42]
Brett Lee New South Wales 1997–2012
Australia 1999–2012
Channel 9 2010–2014[43]

Fox Sports 2018-present[36]

Darren Lehmann Australia 1996–2005 Sky Sports 2005–2007
Tony Lewis Glamorgan 1955–1974
England 1972–1973
BBC (Test Match Special) 1975–1984
The Sunday Telegraph 1975–1993
BBC Television 1984–1998
David Lloyd [lower-alpha 4] Lancashire 1965–1983
England 1973–1980
BBC (Test Match Special) 1992–1995
Sky Sports 1999–present[44]
Channel 9 2013-14 (The Ashes)
Simon Mann None BBC (Radio 5) 1994–1996
BBC (Test Match Special) 1996–present
Sanjay Manjrekar Mumbai 1984–1998
India 1987–1996
ESPN Star Sports 2009–present
TEN Sports 2003–2009
Neil Manthorp None SuperSport (Super Cricket)
BBC (Test Match Special)
ABC ?-present
Talksport 2003-2008
Vic Marks Somerset 1975–1989
England 1982–1988
The Observer 1989–present
BBC (Test Match Special) 1992–present
Howard Marshall (1900–1973) None BBC (BBC Radio) 1927–1945[45]
Christopher Martin-Jenkins (1945 - 2013) None BBC (Test Match Special) 1973–1980, 1985–2012
BBC Television 1980–1985
The Cricketer 1980–1990
Daily Telegraph 1990–1998
The Times 1998–2012
Jim Maxwell None ABC 1973–present
BBC (Test Match Special) 2005– (Ashes series);
Mpumelelo ("Pommie") Mbangwa Zimbabwe 1996–2002 SuperSport (Super Cricket)
TEN Sports
Alan McGilvray (1909–1996) New South Wales 1933–1937 ABC 1938–1985[46][47]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1948–1985 (Ashes series)
Glenn McGrath New South Wales 1992–2008
Australia 1993–2007
Worcestershire 2000
Middlesex 2004
Delhi Daredevils 2008-2010
Channel 7 (Australia) 2018–present[48]
BBC (Test Match Special) 2019 (Ashes series)[49]
Cate McGregor None The Australian
Australian Financial Review
The Spectator[50]
Colin Milburn (1941–1990) Northamptonshire 1960–1969
England 1966–1969
BBC Television 1969 [51]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1983–1988 [52]
Alison Mitchell None BBC (Radio Five Live; Test Match Special) 2003–present[53]
ESPN Star sports 2013, 2014
ABC 2014, 2016-17
Channel 7 (Australia) 2018–present[24]
Channel 5 2018-2019
BBC Television 2020-present
Glenn Mitchell None ABC 1990–2011[54][55]
Drew Morphett None ABC 197?-2015
Danny Morrison New Zealand 1987–1997 Sky Sport 2000–present
Fox Sports
ABC ?-present
Don Mosey (1925–1999) None BBC (Test Match Special) 1974–1991[56]
Johnny Moyes (1893–1963) South Australia 1912–1915
Victoria 1920–1921
ABC 1950–1963[57][58]
Brian Murgatroyd None TEN Sports ca.2008–present
Others?
Mark Nicholas Hampshire 1978–1995 Sky Sports 1996–1998
Channel 4 1999–2005[59]
Daily Telegraph
Nine Network 2001–2018
Channel 5 2006–2019
talkSPORT 2018–2019
Monty Noble (1873-1940) New South Wales 1893–1919
Australia 1898–1909
ABC
Kerry O'Keeffe New South Wales 1968–1980
Australia 1971–1977
ABC 2001–2014[60]

Fox Sports (Australia) 2018-present[36]

Marjorie Pollard (1899–1982) None BBC Radio 1938[3]
Shaun Pollock KwaZulu Natal 1992-2004
Warwickshire 1996-2002
South Africa 1995-2008
SuperSport 2008–present
Venkatesh Prasad India 1996–2001 SET Max 2003
Norton Pereira None Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Rameez Raja Servis Industries 1977–1978
Punjab 1978
Lahore City 1979–1983, 1985–1987, 1992–1993
Allied Bank Limited 1983–1984, 1994–1998
Pakistan National Shipping Corporation 1988–1991
Islamabad 1994
Pakistan 1984–1997
TEN Sports
BBC (Test Match Special)
Dermot Reeve Sussex 1983–1987
Warwickshire 1988–1996
Somerset 1998
MCC 1990
England 1991–1996
Channel 4 1999–2005[61]
Barry Richards South Africa 1970 TEN Sports
Mark Richardson New Zealand 2000–2004 Sky Sport 2006–present
The Crowd Goes Wild 2006–present
Vic Richardson (1894–1969) Australia 1927-1936 ABC 1929-?[27]
R C Robertson-Glasgow Somerset 1920–1935 The Morning Post
The Observer
Peter Roebuck (1956-2011) Somerset 1974–1991 ABC 2001–2011
Mike Selvey Surrey 1968–1971
Middlesex 1972–1982
Glamorgan 1983–1984
England 1976–1977
BBC (Test Match Special) 1984–2008[62][63]
The Guardian 1985–present
Ravi Shastri Mumbai 1979–1994
Glamorgan 1987–1989, 1991
India 1981–1992
ESPN Star sports 1994–present
BCCI 2006–present
Navjot Singh Sidhu Punjab 1981–1999
India 1983–1999
ESPN Star sports 1999–2003
TEN Sports 2003–2004
NDTV 24x7 2006–2009
Times Now 2010–present
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan India1983–1987 Nimbus Sport
BCCI
Star Sports Tamil 2017–present
Michael Slater New South Wales 1991–2001
Australia 1993–2001
Channel 4 2001–2005[64]
Sky Sports 2006
ABC ?-?
Channel 9 2006–2018[64]
Channel 7 2018–present[64]
Ed Smith Middlesex 2005-2008
Kent 1996-2004
BBC (Test Match Special) 2012–2018[65]
Iain Gallaway Otago 1946–1948 Sports Roundup various media 1953-1992
Ian Smith New Zealand 1980–1992 Sky Sport Channel 4 1999-2003
Aamer Sohail Lahore 1983–1999
Habib Bank Limited 1987–1992
Allied Bank Limited 1995–2001
Karachi 1998–1999
Lahore 2000–2001
Somerset 2001
Pakistan 1990–2000
Ten Sports 2001–present
Keith Stackpole Victoria 1959-1974
Australia 1966-1974
ABC ?-2005[66]
Scott Styris New Zealand 2002– ) 2006
Star Sports 2018–present (Select Dugout)
Graeme Swann Northamptonshire 1998-2004
Nottinghamshire 2005-2013
BBC (Test Match Special) 2014–present[67]
E. W. (Jim) Swanton (1907–2000) Middlesex 1937-8 BBC Radio 1938–1956[3]
BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–1975[3]
BBC Television 1948–1967 [22]
The Daily Telegraph 1946–1975
Donna Symmonds None Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation 1988–?
BBC (Test Match Special) 1998–2000?[68]
Mark Taylor New South Wales 1985–1999
Australia 1989–1999
Channel 9 1999–present[69]
Fred Trueman (1931–2006) Yorkshire 1949–1969
England 1952–1965
BBC (Test Match Special) 1974–1999[70]
Channel 9 1977–1978[71]
Phil Tufnell Middlesex 1986–2002
England 1990–2001
BBC (Test Match Special) 2003–present
BBC Television 2020-present
Michael Vaughan Yorkshire 1993–2009
England 1999–2008
Channel 5 2009–2019
BBC (Test Match Special) 2009–present[72]
Fox sports 2018–present[73]
BBC Television 2020-present
Dudley Vernon None BBC Television 1946–? [22]
Bryan Waddle None Radio New Zealand
Radio Sport
ABC ?-present
Max Walker (1948–2016) Victoria 1969–1982
Australia 1972–1981
ABC 1981–1985[74]
Channel 9 1986–1991[75]
Ian Ward Surrey 1992–2003
Sussex 2003–2005
England 2001
Sky Sports 2003–present[76]
Sir Pelham Warner (1873–1963) Oxford University 1894–1896
Middlesex 1894–1920
BBC Radio 1927–?[28]
Shane Warne Hampshire 2000–2007
Australia 1992–2006
Rajasthan Royals 2008–2010
Victoria 1990–2006
Nine Network 2008–2018
Sky Sports 2009–present[77]
Star Sports 2013–present[78]
BCCI 2012–present
Fox Sports 2018–present[25]
Len Watt None Local radio, Sydney 1922 [lower-alpha 5][3]
ABC 1924–?[79]
Mark Waugh New South Wales 1985–2004
Essez 1988–1989
Australia 1988–2002
Channel 10 2013–2018[80]
Fox sports 2018–present[73]
Kepler Wessels Queensland 1979–1986
Australia 1982–1985
South Africa 1992–94
Sussex 1976–1980
SuperSport (Super Cricket)
Peter West (1920–2003) None BBC Television 1952–1986[81][82]
Arlo White None BBC (Test Match Special) 2005–2008[83]
Alan Wilkins Glamorgan 1975–1979, 1983
Gloucestershire 1980–1982
BBC 1987–1998
ESPN Star Sports 2000–present
Bob Willis (1949–2019) Surrey, Warwickshire 1969–1984
England 1971–1984
Sky Sports
John Woodcock None The Guardian
The Times
Norman Yardley (1915–1989) Yorkshire 1935–1955
England 1938–1950
BBC (Test Match Special) 1956–1969
Waqar Younis Karachi, Lahore, Multan,
National Bank of Pakistan, Rawalpindi,
Redco Pakistan Ltd, United Bank Limited
1989–2003
Surrey 1990–1993
Glamorgan 1997–1998
Warwickshire 2003
Pakistan 1989–2003
TEN Sports 2010–present
Dean du Plessis None ESPNcricinfo 2001–present

Partially revised 26 December 2020.

See also

Notes

  1. The Chappell brothers (Greg and Ian) are grandsons of Vic Richardson.
  2. The idea of providing complete ball-by-ball coverage of a Test Match was conceived by Hudson whilst commentating with Fred Trueman on a county game at Scarborough in 1955, as a result of which Test Match Special went on air two years later.[34]
  3. Also known as 'Mr Cricket' due to his encyclopedic knowledge of the game.
  4. Often referred to using the nickname 'Bumble'.
  5. The first ever broadcast coverage of a cricket match anywhere in the world – a testimonial game for Charles Bannerman (1851–1930) at the SCG between two teams from New South Wales[3]

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Further reading

  • Arlott, John (1992). Basingstoke Boy : An Autobiography. London: Fontana. ISBN 0006377378.
  • Baxter, Peter, ed. (1981). Test Match Special. London: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0362005478.
  • Baxter, Peter, ed. (1983). Test Match Special 2. London: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0362005478.
  • Baxter, Peter (2007). Test Match Special : 50 Not Out - The Official History of a National Sporting Treasure. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563539063.
  • Benaud, Richie (2010). Over But Not Out : My Life So Far. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1444705928.
  • Blofeld, Henry (2017). Over and Out : My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1473670914.
  • Fay, Stephen; Kynaston, David (2018). Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408895405.
  • Haynes, Richard (2009). "'Lobby' and the Formative Years of Radio Sports Commentary, 1935–1952". Sport in History. 29: 25–48. doi:10.1080/17460260902775193. hdl:1893/1565. S2CID 143888265.
  • Johnston, Brian (1983). Chatterboxes : My Friends the Commentators. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413495809.
  • Maxwell, Jim (2017). The Sound of Summer : A Memoir. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1742370828.
  • McGilvray, Alan; Tasker, Norman (1985). McGilvray : The Game is Not the Same... As Told to Norman Tasker. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN 0642529280.
  • Swanton, E. W. (1972). Sort of A Cricket Person. London: Collins. ISBN 0002117487.
  • Williams, Jack (2011). "Broadcasting and cricket in England" (PDF). In Bateman, Anthony (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–69. ISBN 978-0521167871.
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