The "Golden Age" of cricket is a nostalgic term that has often been applied in cricket literature to the period in English cricket from 1890, the opening...
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A golden age is a period considered the peak in the history of a country or people, a time period when the greatest achievements were made. The term originated...
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playing cricket than any professional.[citation needed] The last two decades before the First World War have been called the "Golden Age of cricket". It...
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historically been associated with parlimantry play of the sport, particularly during the Golden Age of Cricket in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
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Golden Age of cricket and it featured numerous great names such as Grace, Wilfred Rhodes, C. B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji and Victor Trumper. During most of the...
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in a Golden Age (2009) Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (1970) Derek Birley A Social History of English...
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Victor Trumper (category Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees)
batsman of the Golden Age of cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets his contemporaries found unplayable. English cricket captain...
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David Frith (category Cricket writers)
ISBN 0207957924. The Golden Age of Cricket, 1890–1914. Guildford: Lutterworth Press. 1978. ISBN 0718870220. The Illustrated History of Test Cricket (Edited by Martin...
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"Golden Age" of cricket); Lawrence Hargrave (aviator and inventor); Nicholas Weekes (prominent freemason); and Michael Dwyer (revolutionary leader of the...
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William Powell (cricketer) (section Cricket career)
amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club during the Golden Age of cricket before the First World War. He was born...
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Plum Warner (category Presidents of Middlesex County Cricket Club)
Writers. Media related to Pelham Warner at Wikimedia Commons The Golden Age of Cricket 1890–1914 by David Frith, ISBN 0-907853-50-1 Plum Warner at ESPNcricinfo...
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national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing...
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Hugh Trumble (category Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees)
Australian bowlers of the Golden Age of cricket. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1897 and the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, established...
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George Plumptre (category Cricket writers)
(2014)- and cricket, including Back Page Cricket (1987), Homes of Cricket (1988) and The Golden Age of Cricket (1989). He also produced a biography of King Edward...
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Robert Trumble (category Cricket writers)
musician and author. Son of international cricketer Hugh Trumble, Robert dedicated his first book, The Golden Age of Cricket, to his father. It was published...
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Dick Blaker (category British Army personnel of World War I)
amateur sportsman who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club during the Golden Age of cricket prior to the First World War. Blaker won...
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Fred Huish (category Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers)
titles in the Golden Age of cricket leading up to the war. He holds the record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in first-class cricket who did not...
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Travis Head (redirect from List of international cricket centuries by Travis Head)
Championships at the age of 17. After making his name playing grade cricket for Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club, Head made his first-class cricket debut for South...
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was one of the last first-class tours for the Philadelphian team. The city of Philadelphia was nearing the end of its golden age of cricket and the last...
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Amateurism in Cricket. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Arlott, John (1984). Arlott on Cricket. Collins. Frith, David (1978). The Golden Age of Cricket: 1890–1914...
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Rowland Ryder (category Cricket writers)
journalist, biographer and cricket writer. Ryder's father, also called Rowland Ryder, was the secretary of Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1895 to 1944...
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player with the same number of wickets both of them are awarded with the Golden Ball. For a long period of time prior to the Cricket World Cup, awards were...
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Michael Vaughan (category Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup)
Holburn, Graham (25 July 2001). Ernest Tyldesley: illuminated the golden age of cricket. ESPN Cricinfo. Viner, Brian (17 May 2007). "Peter Moores and I...
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In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, i.e. not a member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority...
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W. G. Grace (category Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers)
The Golden Age of Cricket. Lutterworth Press. ISBN 0-7188-7022-0. Gibson, Alan (1989). The Cricket Captains of England. Grace, W. G. (1891). Cricket . Ghost-written...
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match in August. The championship title was the second of four by Kent during the Golden Age of cricket in the years leading up to the First World War. It...
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era of Test match cricket. The period between 1890 and immediately before the First World War is known as the Golden Age of cricket. It saw great amateur...
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formation of the competition in 1890, winning the competition seven times, including four times during the Golden Age of cricket in the early years of the 20th...
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Australian cricket Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993 David Frith, The Golden Age of Cricket 1890–1914, Lutterworth, 1978...
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CricketArchive — itinerary of Australian cricket Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877–1978, Wisden, 1979 David Frith, The Golden Age of...
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