Patrick Murphy - Fifty Incredible Cricket Matches

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Foreword by Bob Willis.

As every cricket-lover knows, scorecards are not just dead statistics. With a little probing the magic figures come to life, and reproduce a match with the accuracy of a video recording. From a shortlist of 300 historic scorecards, Patrick Murphy has selected fifty favourites, recreating their events with vivid clarity.

From Frank Carroll Cobden’s hat-trick for Cambridge v. Oxford in 1870 to Abdul Qadir’s leg-spinning humiliation of the West Indies in Faisalabad in 1986; from Fred Tate’s deadly dropped catch in 1902 to Chris Tavaré’s juggling act in the Melbourne Test in 1982; from Laker at Old Trafford in 1956 to Botham at Leeds in 1981 - whether your taste is for nail-biting finishes or towering individual performances, you will find something here to delight you.

Recall with Patrick Murphy the England v. Australia debacle at the Oval in 1882, which caused one spectator to gnaw through the handle of his umbrella. Remember ‘Ted’ Boaler Alletson’s thunderous 189 for Notts at Hove which lost five balls and took a shade under forty minutes. Relive Pat Pocock’s demolition of the Sussex batting while his coach hung on the phone waiting for developments. From the superhuman to the supernumerary, from blinding talent to blind panic - here are cricket figures and events to bestir the dullest memory.