Lord Hawke was captain of Cambridge University, Yorkshire and England in a time when, as A.A. Thomson observed, 'there were giants in the land'. His era is now lost to us, shrouded by the fog of war and by economic and social revolutions that would beggar the Victorian imagination.That despite everything English cricket not only survives in its traditional form, but thrives, is in no small measure the enduring achievement of three men, three eminent...