Book description
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is by far the most successful county
cricket club in history. Since the County Championship was constituted
in 1890, Yorkshire has, in addition to one shared Championship, won it
outright on 30 occasions and Yorkshire cricket supporters take great
pride in the county's cricketing history. As well as the club's
successes, there have been 42 Yorkshire players chosen as Wisden
Cricketers of the Year. Many have been world-class cricketers such as
Wilfred Rhodes, Len Hutton, Fred Trueman and Geoffrey Boycott, with
distinguished England careers. Many thousands of Wisden pages have been
filled with Yorkshire cricket, Yorkshire cricketers and Tests in
Yorkshire. Wisden on Yorkshire is a fascinating journey mixing great
matches, personalities, feats, controversies and unusual occurrences.
Presenting the best Yorkshire info from the Almanack archives, Wisden on
Yorkshire includes: Focus on the iconic Yorkshire players, such as
Truman and Boycott Cricketers of the Year and Obituaries The County's
history, highlighting significant years and extracts from reviews of
those years Fascinating stories of both the highs and lows in the club's
history colour plate section containing superb classic images Detailed
records, match reports and scorecards Duncan Hamilton is the author of
the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Provided You Don't Kiss
Me and recently edited the 2008 Wisden book of the year, Sweet Summers:
The classic writing of JM Kilburn. He's from Yorkshire.
