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Cricket through the Wars

  • Surrey CCC during the Second World War

    by John Broom 2 January 2021

    By 1939, English cricket was facing a polarisation of financial fortunes between the county and international game. Surrey, traditionally one of the strongest counties, was …

    by John Broom 2 January 2021
  • Middlesex CCC during the Second World War

    by John Broom 1 December 2020

    Middlesex CCC had had a successful if frustrating run up to the war. In five seasons they had finished 3rd once and 2nd on no …

    by John Broom 1 December 2020
  • Essex CCC during the Second World War

    by John Broom 1 November 2020

    Essex County Cricket Club had been making steady progress on the playing front during the 1930s. Consecutive pre-war county championship finishing positions of 9th, 9th, …

    by John Broom 1 November 2020
  • Yorkshire CCC during the Second World War

    by John Broom 4 October 2020

    Yorkshire Country Cricket Club successfully bookended the Second World War, with championship victories in 1939 and 1946. On the surface it would seem that the …

    by John Broom 4 October 2020
  • Building a New England – Four future greats who made their name in Wartime Cricket

    by John Broom 6 September 2020

    Whilst the war denied the probable peak playing years of cricketers such as Len Hutton and Denis Compton, and took away the test twilights of …

    by John Broom 6 September 2020
  • Services Cricket in Egypt

    by John Broom 2 August 2020

    For the ordinary soldier serving in North Africa during the war, their cricketing opportunities were usually restricted to makeshift pitches created on stony ground, with …

    by John Broom 2 August 2020
  • The British Empire XI

    by John Broom 27 June 2020

    Despite the absence of the County Championship between 1940 and 1945, over the course of six English domestic wartime seasons cricket aficionados could still enjoy …

    by John Broom 27 June 2020
  • The Grim Test: Cricket During the Second World War

    by John Broom 23 May 2020

    As the domestic game faces the very real prospect of the `season that never was’ of 2020, the previous occasion during which test and first-class …

    by John Broom 23 May 2020

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  • Mark Ramprakash, former England, Middlesex & Surrey batsman

    7 January 2021
  • Wayne Larkins, former England, Northants & Durham batsman

    5 December 2020
  • Steven Finn, England & Middlesex fast bowler

    15 November 2020
  • Paul Smith, former Warwickshire all-rounder

    11 October 2020

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  • My Favourite England Test XI

    16 January 2021
  • New year, new hope?

    4 January 2021
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    4 January 2021
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    4 January 2021

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