THE GLOVEMEN

R280.00

THE WORLD’S BEST WICKET-KEEPERS

While batsmen and bowlers frequently get the lion’s share of attention they are no more crucial to a cricket team than its wicket-keeper. In The Glovemen Australia’s premier cricket writer, Jack Pollard, has produced an entertaining and analytical study of the art of keeping and its most successful practitioners, from the legendary John Blackham, who kept wickets for Australia in the first Test, to the current crop of Test wicket-keepers, Marsh, Dujon, Evans, Grout, Knott, Engineer, Wasim Bari, Oldfield and a host of others are all discussed, their strengths and weaknesses evaluated, their temperaments and personalities examined. The Gloveman also contains an extensive appendix of wicket-keeping records, ranging from most dismissals in a career to fewest byes conceded (per runs scored and per balls bowled). A book for enthusiasts and browsers alike.

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Authored by Jack Pollard, with a foreword by Rodney Marsh, published by Kangaroo Press of Kenthurst, NSW, in 1993. Hard cover bound this First Edition copy is in Fine condition, covered in plastic, with a Fine dust jacket. The size of the book is 246x185x20mm, with 192 pages including an index and 3 Appendixes. ISBN 9780864175564. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Clean and well bound. No inscriptions, annotations or marks. Appears un-read.