I received my copy of Forgotten Pioneers today from Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books. It looks absolutely fantastic! It is available to preorder now and comes out in hardback on 13 May.

Was able to help Sarastro a little with his book and it's a lovely thing, covering a fascinating time in women's cricket history, providing a valuable long form account on the subject Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books

Until W. G. Grace emerged in the 1860s, most people would have said that the greatest batter of all was a man called Fuller Pilch, who played between 1820 and 1855. How did Pilch emerge to become the best batter in the world? oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/a-b…

Although the hardback version has been slightly delayed (but can still be pre-ordered!), I believe that the Kindle version of my book about the Original English Lady Cricketers, published by Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books is available now. Please spread the word!! pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/forgotten…

Extracts from Forgotten Pioneers, my books about the Original English Lady Cricketers, can currently be read on the Reader’s Digest website readersdigest.co.uk/lifestyle/spor…

Until W. G. Grace emerged in the 1860s, most people would have said that the greatest batter of all was a man called Fuller Pilch, who played between 1820 and 1855. How did Pilch emerge to become the best batter in the world? oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/a-b…

Although the hardback version has been slightly delayed (but can still be pre-ordered!), I believe that the Kindle version of my book about the Original English Lady Cricketers, published by Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books is available now. Please spread the word!! pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/forgotten…

Fitz Hinds played for Barbados and was at the centre of several controversies (not of his own making). He toured England with the West Indies in 1900 before moving to the US. But not only has he been forgotten, he has been misidentified in history books oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/wro…

Fitz Hinds played for Barbados and was at the centre of several controversies (not of his own making). He toured England with the West Indies in 1900 before moving to the US. But not only has he been forgotten, he has been misidentified in history books oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/wro…

Errol Hunte played for the West Indies in 1930 but became more famous for a mistake Wisden made over his name. He was a decent wicket-keeper and batter but was somewhat inadvertently caught up in several controversies during his cricket career oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/pol…

Errol Hunte played for the West Indies in 1930 but became more famous for a mistake Wisden made over his name. He was a decent wicket-keeper and batter but was somewhat inadvertently caught up in several controversies during his cricket career oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/pol…

Harold Gimblett retired in 1954 as Somerset Cricket 🏆's leading run-scorer, a position he still holds today in first-class cricket. Yet so much of his career, particularly the end of it, was affected by his lifelong struggle with his mental health…oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/too…

Harold Gimblett retired in 1954 as Somerset Cricket 🏆's leading run-scorer, a position he still holds today in first-class cricket. Yet so much of his career, particularly the end of it, was affected by his lifelong struggle with his mental health…oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/too…

I’ve got an article about Charlie Absolom, the one-Test wonder who fled to the USA after a heartbreak and died in mysterious circumstances, in the latest issue of The Nightwatchman

Harold Gimblett had one of the most incredible first-class debuts of all time when he scored 123 in 79 minutes for Somerset in 1935. The following year, he scored a fifty on his England debut, but his career never quite lived up to these amazing beginnings oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/the…

C. A. V. Makaula was a mixed-race cricketer from South Africa who briefly played in the Bradford League and Lancashire League in the 1920s. But that was just one part of the frankly extraordinary life of him and his family
oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/the…

C. A. V. Makaula was a mixed-race cricketer from South Africa who briefly played in the Bradford League and Lancashire League in the 1920s. But that was just one part of the frankly extraordinary life of him and his family
oldebor.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/the…