Masters of Cricket : From Trumper to May
260pp plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. In grey cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering (slightly rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a small, faint number stamped on the front free endpaper. In its original dust jacket (a little chipped on edges with minor loss around head of spine, minor shelf wear visible on reverse). At the end of the 1953 Australian cricket team tour, the incomparable Ray Lindwall had taken 158 test wickets. In this volume he traces his career from a cricket mad teenager to becoming Australia's shock bowler number one, and gives the story of dramatic Test Matches and off-the-field incidents.