Cricket through the Wars

In the photograph collection of the Australian War Memorial is a fine photo of…

“I’ll have one more over” Arthur Carr June 1914 saw cricket celebrating its illustrious…

Amongst the many cricketers who lost many of their prime playing years to the…

‘No Hitler can kill the love of cricket which is inherent in the English…

In the years leading up to the Second World War, Worcestershire CCC had struggled…

In the five seasons leading up to the Second World War, Warwickshire CCC had…

Sussex CCC had experienced a mercurial run-up to the war, their county championship finishing…

Somerset’s pre-war playing fortunes had been somewhat of a yo-yo affair, finishing consecutively 14th,…

The 1930s had been a decade of toil for Leicestershire CCC. Only once had…

In the years leading up the war Kent had mostly hovered around the middle…