Miscellaneous
Tangents include: the development of the league system and the scheduling of late 19th century cricket, the creation of the county system and the ‘newspaper leagues’, how ‘traditional’ values are generally only the really weird morality of Victorian England necessary to run a colonial empire, some more detail on our favourite Johnny Won’t Hit Today, The Bulletin and it’s role in creating national identity, and giving English spectator behaviour a pass – they’ve just come out of a war after all. And a little bit more reflection on the importance of the AIF XI in reviving international cricket.Corrections: I correct it in the episode, but for some reason I have a blind spot on the 1920/21 English tour of Australia. Gurinder Sandhu is one of the modern bowlers bowling pace and spin, and Ashkay Karnewar playing for Board President’s XI against Australia A was the left and right handed bowler I saw recently.