Strangers Who Came Home : The First Australian Cricket Tour of England

from MiaCulpa

I approached "The Strangers Who Came Home" with some trepidation, having read many a dry cricket book but I happily found it a thoroughly enjoyable read, detailing both the cricket that was played in the exhausting tour but also of the people behind the names on the yellowing scorebooks. A decade...

from drmaf

I'm a cricket tragic so I enjoyed this book immensely. I had never really heard about the Australian Eleven that was the first white team (a team of Aboriginal players had toured a decade earlier, barely mentioned in this book) from Down Under to tour the Old Dart - conventional cricket histories...

from drmaf

I'm a cricket tragic so I enjoyed this book immensely. I had never really heard about the Australian Eleven that was the first white team (a team of Aboriginal players had toured a decade earlier, barely mentioned in this book) from Down Under to tour the Old Dart - conventional cricket histories...