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FROM GRACE TO HUTTON Alan Gibson - Great Men Before Agamemnon 3 C. B. Fry - The Founder of Modern Batsmanship 18 Bernard Darwin - Genial Giant 20 Ray Robinson - The Second Most Famous Beard in Cricket 25 J. H. Fingleton - Never Another Like Victor 29 Bernard Hollowood - The Greatest of Bowlers 37 Ian Peebles - The Colossus of Rhodes 43 Ralph Barker - The American LiUee 47 Neville Cardus - The Millionaire of Spin 57 R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - Three English Batsmen 62 Ronald Mason - Imperial Hammond 68 W J. O'Reilly - Young Don Bradman 79 J. H. Fingleton - Brightly Fades the Don 85 C. L. R. James - The Black Bradman 96 J. H. Fingleton - My Friend, the Enemy o05 E. W. Swanton - Compton Arrives in Alan Ross - Hutton Departs x16 'Evoe' - Can Nothing Be Done? Izo FROM MILLER TO TBNDULKAR Ray Robinson - Touch of a Hero I25 Ray Robinson - Much in a Name 132 Ray Robinson - The Original Little Master 140 C. L. R. James - A Representative Man 148 John Arlott - In His Pomp Ix6 Ray Robinson - Southern Southpaws 169 Frank Keating - Down Under and Out x79 Scyld Berry - Gavaskar Equals Bradman x83 John Woodcock - Kapil's Devil 86 Donald Woods - Twist Again 89 MartinJohnson - A Man with a Secret 191 Scyld Berry - Botham's Fastest Hundred 194 Hugh Mdlvanney -Black Is Bountiful 2oI Frank Keating - Marshall Arts 207 Martin Johnson - King of the Willow 212 B. C. Pires - Emperor of Trinidad 215 Frank Keating - Final Fling for the Fizzer 217 Mike Selvey - Sachin of Mumbai 22o Suresh Menon - Tendulkar of the World 222 Alan Ross - Watching Benaud Bowl 225 LITTLE HEROES A. A. Thomson - Bat, Ball and Boomerang 229 John Arlott - Rough Diamond 237 Neville Cardus - Robinson of Yorkshire 241 David Foot - Character in the Counties 244 Rowland Ryder - The Unplayable Jeeves 249 C. L. R. James - The Most Unkindest Cut 252 Matthew Engel - A Great Fat Man 261 Dale Slater - Abed and Apartheid 268 Philip Snow - The Fijian Botham 273 Sujit Mukherjee - A Jesuit in Patna 282 Neville Cardus - A Shastbury Character 286 Alan Gibson - The Unmasking of a Dashing Oriental Star 290 N. S. Ramaswami - Iverson and the Lesser Arts 293 Richard Cashman - The Celebrated Yabba 295 Hubert Phillips- An Englishman's Crease 297 VMATCHES Ralph Barker - The Dem Agaist Englan 301 Neville Cardus - The Ideal Cricket Match 317 C. L. R. James - Barnes v. Constantine 326 J. H. Fingleton - The Best Test I Have Known 330 Richie Benaud - The Last Day at Brisbane 34 Mike Marqusee - David Slays Goliath 350 R. C. Robeon-Glasgow - The One-Way Critic 361 STYLEs AND THEE J. H. Fingleton - The Brilliance of LefHanders 365 John Arlott - Fast and Furious 38 Ian Peebles - Opening Batsmen 382 John Arlott - Not One to Cover 386 Gerald Brodribb- The Big Hit 390 Ian Peebles - Ba9ooners 398 Neville Cardus - The Umpire 401 J. H. Fingleton - Cricket Farewels 404 Tunku Varadarajan - To Lord's with Love - and a Hamper 406 Alan Ross - The Presence of Ranji 40o Gideon Haigh - Sir Donald Brandname 412 B. C. Pires - Coping with Defeat 419 Ian Wooldridge - Ashes Dream Teams 424 John Arlott - Australianism 428 V S. Naipaul - The Caribbean Flavour 432 J. B. Priestley - The Lesson of Garfield Sobers 437 Neville Cardus - The Spirit of Summer 44I A. A. Thomson - Winter Made Glorious 445 Neville Cardus - What's in a Name? 450 Rowland Ryder - The Pleasures of Reading Wisden 453 Ramachandra Guha - Epilogue: An Addict's Archive 461 R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - The Bowler's Epitaph 470 Acknowledgements 471