Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets: England's Troubled Reign as Test Match Kings During the Fifties

by Tim Quelch

When Andrew Strauss's team seized the world title in the summer of 2011 they finally recovered what had been lost at the Adelaide Oval in 1959. This tale of England's preceding triumph and loss is recounted through the memoirs of many of the star players when England had last been top of the world. Bent Arms and Dodgy Wickets tells the story of English cricket's slow recovery from the Second World War, of its brief time of triumph and of its undignified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908051833
• ISBN13: 9781908051837
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.