Between Overs: How Life Gets in the Way of Cricket (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)

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Bowling underwent an evolution around 1760 when bowlers began to pitch the ball instead of rolling or skimming it towards the batter. The (highest level) Test playing nations are shown in red; the associate member nations are shown in orange, with those with ODI status in a darker shade; suspended or former members are shown in dark grey. That is, simply, how things were, probably are (Savidge recounts a similar tale from the 2019 Men’s World Cup).

The ball has a "seam": six rows of stitches attaching the leather shell of the ball to the string and cork interior. If that were not enough she then had to watch her poor mother succumb to seriously failing health – that one was so painful that I have to confess that I couldn’t bring myself to read everything and there were a few paragraphs that I simply glossed over.Savage came into the limelight last evening during the Major League Cricket 2023 season opener between Los Angeles Knight Riders and Texas Super Kings. Our bats are designed to provide maximum performance and durability, ensuring that you can play your best game every time.

Perhaps I am missing something but I could not find a single reference to Trent Bridge in the chapter, although there are accounts of Savidge watching cricket with her father at Lord’s and Edgbaston, and there are references to his beloved Nottingham Forest. It was as an off-spin bowler that, having played a few matches over several seasons, he joined the Leicestershire staff in 1957 and was virtually ever-present in the first team for the next 10 seasons, often providing the only spin alternative to a succession of seam bowlers. He then joined his native Lancashire for three seasons, playing regularly in the first two, but retiring from first-class cricket at the age of 40 in 1969. A 1697 newspaper report survives of "a great cricket match" played in Sussex "for fifty guineas apiece" – this is the earliest known contest that is generally considered a First Class match.

To register a run, both runners must touch the ground behind the popping crease with either their bats or their bodies (the batters carry their bats as they run). It came in the form of the (South African-born) England captain Tony Greig’s prophecy that his team would make the visitors “grovel”. The main point seems to be the astonishment of the Savidge of 2022 that the Savidge of the late ‘70s and early ‘80’s could have been so innocent. In 1876–77, an England team took part in what was retrospectively recognized as the first-ever Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against Australia.