Book description
Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and
editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of
cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed
England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies.
In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong
love of the game found glorious expression. Cape Summer and the
Australians in England (1957) treats the 1956 Ashes series, memorable
above all for the bowling performance of Jim Laker; and the following
winter's MCC tour to apartheid South Africa, where one of England's
strongest ever sides had an unexpectedly tough contest and where, as
ever, Ross's discerning eye and finessing pen were alive to dimensions
of the game beyond the boundary rope.
