Talk:History of Test cricket (to 1883)

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[edit] A very detailed account of the 1882 Ashes Match

I have the resources (newspaper articles, reconstructions, biographies, autobiographies and tour books) available to provide an almost ball-by-ball account of the 1882 Test Match at The Oval. I've written a rather long introduction to it on the page concerned (although it could be a lot longer), and I would like to know if I have leave to go ahead with what will probably be a bit of an overkill. Cheers, Robertson-Glasgow 08:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that any one individual is in a position to say that you should or you shouldn't - it's really a question of consensus. For anything much longer than what we have now, it might be best to write a separate article with a suitable title and link to it from this one (and also link to it from The Ashes). Oh, and welcome to Wiki, which I guess was my doing. :) I like your choice of user name. It was I who wrote the first draft of the Wiki article for him. JH 20:36, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

IMHO, it could be trimmed a bit because the intro is much longer than the description of actual play. Tintin (talk) 20:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, JH. Great man, "Crusoe", wasn't he? (I just hope that you know that I am talking about good old Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow, cricket-writer extraordinaire. I'll leave it to him to tell of how he got the nickname "Crusoe": '[In the match in 1920 in which Oxford beat Essex] Charlie McGahey and A. C. Russell had put on some 60 runs at the start of their second innings when I bowled McGahey with a full pitcher, which he later referred to as a yorker. In the bowels of the pavilion, Johnny Douglas, the Essex captain, asked him how he was out, and McGahey answered: 'I was bowled by an old [censored] I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe.'" Cheers, Robertson-Glasgow 08:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

"IMHO, it could be trimmed a bit because the intro is much longer than the description of actual play." Yeah, the intro was meant to be a bit of a sample of how detailed the piece was going to be. Cheers, Robertson-Glasgow 08:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A new Ashes book

Does anyone have or know anything about Christopher Hilton's "The Birth of the Ashes: The Amazing Story of the First Ashes Test" (Breedon Books, Oct 2006)? Apparently there's a lot of groundbreaking research that went on there.--Robertson-Glasgow 08:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur Courcy the umbrella-handle muncher???

In the article, it is written that "an Epsom stockbroker called Arthur Courcy, is said to have bitten through his brother-in-law's umbrella handle." I've read countless times about "a spectator" biting through his umbrella handle, but I have never seen him named. Is there any sort of reference to this? Cheers, Robertson-Glasgow 08:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)