Buy this book on-line PLUMPTRE,GEORGE - Edited by: : E.W. SWANTON: As I Said at the Time - A LIFETIME OF CRICKETLONDON.WILLOW BOOKS/COLLINS,1983. ISBN 0002180197.
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There is no cricket writer whose work has had more influence on the game since the econd World War than E[rnest] W[illiam] Swanton.His unique mixture of authority and affection,combined with an all-embracing knowledge of the game,has become justly famous.He has been indentified,of course, chiefly with 'The Daily Telegraph',for which he was cricket correspondent between 1946 and 1975,and with the BBC as commentator and summarizer on radio and television,from 1938 to the mid- 1970s. To date (then 1983),Jim Swanton's career has spanned nearer sixty years than fifty. In 'As I Said at the Time' the author has made selections from his writings which reflect the bredth of its span.The majority of the work originally appeared in 'The Daily Telegraph',some of it during the eight years following his retirement.The anthology's warm retrospective view takes in certain of the highlights of the author's writing career: the great matches and players.But its main appeal must be the fascinating reflection it gives the broad spectrum of the game of cricket and of a cricket-writer's work - from reports on Test and county matches,to profiles of personalities,to comment on cricket's crises and to correspondence with readers. The reports,comments and criticisms, reprinted as they appeared at the time,are enriched but not overshadowed by judicious contemporary remarks.
'As I Said at the Time' is a personal book.It is also a book of great charm which hints at the intangible magic of the game of cricket and its potential for descriptive writing.The reader will make a nostalgic journey through the game from its origins to the present day,stopping off as he wishes,be it in 1930 or 1975,at Lord's or at Melbourne,or earlier or later,with Grace or with Gower.He may relive fond moments from his own memory or experience, enjoying the unmistakable flavour of one of cricket's best-known nd most respected pens. 'As I Said at the Time' reflects indeed a lifetime in cricket - from the first Test match Jim Swanton recalls watching as a boy,at the Oval in 1921,to his thoughts on some of the game's current problems.It is an anthology unique in its scope and variety.
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