Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE (2 April 1888 – 28 February 1975) was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly...
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British graphic designer Neville Buswell (1943–2019), British actor Neville Cardus (1888−1975), British writer and critic Neville Chamberlain (1869−1940)...
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wickets in 1895, again a figure only exceeded by Freeman (twice). In 1963 Neville Cardus selected him as one of his "Six Giants of the Wisden Century". Richardson...
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(born 1959), Spanish motorcycle road racer Neville Cardus (1888-1975), English writer and critic Ricard Cardús (born 1988), Spanish motorcycle road racer...
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cricketers who were judged by Sir Neville Cardus in 1963 to have been the most notable players of the previous 100 years. Cardus made his selection at the request...
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Benaud Rahul Bhattacharya Lawrence Booth Dick Brittenden Robert Brooke Neville Cardus Stephen Chalke Ian Chappell David Foot Charles Fortune David Frith Saurav...
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from Neville Cardus, telling the journalist that he wanted an early night because the team needed him to make a double century the next day. Cardus pointed...
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(1916–1990), knighted in 1956 for services to cricket. Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE (1888–1975), knighted in 1967 for services to music and cricket...
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William Hill award for The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus. After 32 years as a newspaper journalist in Nottingham and Leeds, Hamilton...
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writers have written for Wisden, along with many great cricketers. Neville Cardus contributed many notable essays and for many years John Arlott was responsible...
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never hoped to see." Neville Cardus noted it was "perhaps the most skillful of all Test performances by a batsman." It also led Cardus to count Taylor as...
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conceivable device of bowlers Hobbs reigned supreme. Obituary of Hobbs by Neville Cardus For much of Hobbs' career, critics judged him to be the best batsman...
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"Cinderella has Scarlet Nails". Daily Express. London. 27 December 1934. Neville Cardus, Second Innings: Autobiographical Reminiscences (London: Collins, 1950)...
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn ("The Young Lad's Magic Horn"). Music critic Neville Cardus writes that this anthology nourished the composer's "pantheistic feelings...
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history". He was renowned for his slow scoring in Tests against Australia, Neville Cardus writing of one innings in his book Full Score (1970, chapter "Cricket...
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whole of a piece became marked. His loyal friend and admirer the critic Neville Cardus wrote privately in 1969, "he seems so much to love a single phrase that...
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Brown in South Africa in 1935–36 as part of Bill O'Reilly's leg-trap. Neville Cardus, once described the Fingleton-Brown combination as "crouching low and...
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accuracy, variations in flight and, in his early days, sharp spin. Critic Neville Cardus wrote: "Flight was his secret. Flight and the curving line, now higher...
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as "a sure sign of the weakling and the mollycoddle", according to Neville Cardus, writing in 1928. "Tim" Killick was the first professional cricketer...
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in a tour of Oh! Letty, a "musical farce" in which he was praised by Neville Cardus for "a stretch of distinguished dancing". In 1932 he married Peggy,...
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flats opposite Platt Fields Park. The cricket writer and music critic Neville Cardus (1888–1975) was born in Rusholme, as were musicians Roy Harper (born...
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popular with teammates. However, he was a hero to the cricket writer Neville Cardus, who wrote prolifically on him. MacLaren died in 1944, aged 72. MacLaren...
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cricketers and always said to Neville that any success I had was due to the imaginative stimulus he gave me." – his view of Neville Cardus.[citation needed] "The...
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Johnstone (1896–1904) Ernest Newman (1905–1906) Samuel Langford (1906–1927) Neville Cardus (1927–1940) Edward Greenfield (1977–1993) Tom Service (1999–2003) Andrew...
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fell short by 75 runs. Cricket writers Neville Cardus and John Arlott acclaimed Compton's achievements. Cardus wrote: Never have I been so deeply touched...
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Johnstone (1896–1904) Ernest Newman (1905–1906) Samuel Langford (1906–1927) Neville Cardus (1927–1940) Edward Greenfield (1977–1993) Tom Service (1999–2003) Andrew...
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activity." Harewood (2004) Cardus, pp. 19–20 Ferrier, pp. 14–16 Leonard, pp. 7–8 Leonard, p. 10 Leonard, pp. 12–14 Cardus, pp. 15–16 Leonard, pp. 19–20...
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a sportsman, evidenced by the 1914 appointment as his secretary of Neville Cardus, the future cricket journalist who had joined the school in 1912 as...
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values of Donald Bradman, his captain and later national selector. Neville Cardus referred to Miller as "the Australian in excelsis"; Wooldridge's response...
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Madeleine Bunting Julie Burchill Simon Callow James Cameron Duncan Campbell Neville Cardus Alexander Chancellor Kira Cochrane Mark Cocker Alistair Cooke G. D....
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