Team members included players of the St George's Cricket Club, the brothers Harry and George Wright, and Henry Chadwick, the English-born journalist who coined the term " America's Pastime ".

Tufnell also co-authored a humorous book, Phil Tufnell's ' A To Z of Cricket with cricket journalist Adam Hathaway.

Hutton worked with Thomas Moult, a journalist and writer, to produce a book of memoirs, Cricket is My Life in 1949, and he wrote for the News of the World while still playing.

In 2006, John authored the book " John Wright's Indian Summers " describing his experiences as coach of the Indian Cricket Team along with Indian journalist Sharda Ugra and Paul Thomas.

With the support of John Arlott, and the members and supporters of St Augustine's Cricket Club in Cape Town, he emigrated to England in 1960, where the journalist John Kay found him a place in his Central Lancashire League team of Middleton.

In 2004, journalist Peter Oborne wrote a biography entitled Basil D ' Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy, which was awarded the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was accompanied by Paul Yule's RTS award-winning documentary Not Cricket — The Basil D ' Oliveira Conspiracy.

Angus Robert Charles Fraser MBE ( born 8 August 1965, Billinge Higher End, Lancs ) is currently Middlesex County Cricket Club's Managing Director of Cricket, and a former English cricketer and journalist.

When his playing career ended, Gilligan held several important positions in cricket, including that of England selector and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ), and became a journalist.

Cricket journalist E. W. Swanton writes that Gilligan was the favoured candidate of the influential Lord Harris, which may have assisted his appointment.

During the season, Harvey applied to the Australian Cricket Board for permission to work as a journalist while also playing cricket.

As a television journalist he began by making three polemical documentaries with filmmaker Paul Yule – " Mugabe's Secret Famine " ( 2003 ), " Afghanistan – Here's One We Invaded Earlier " ( 2004 ), and " Not Cricket – The Basil D ' Oliveira Conspiracy " ( 2004 ).

Late Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, Ex Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Bangobondhu cabinet Minister ( 1972-5 ) and the Leader of Liberation War 1971 of Jessore District and the President of first public meeting on the liberated soil of Bangladesh at Jessore, Late Poet Kazi Kader Newaz, Cricket Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, Late Dariapur Pir Saheb, Late Poet Syed Ali Ahsan, Late Poet Farrukh Ahmad, Late Poet Lutfur Rahman, Greatest Muktibahini Leader Akbar Hossain Miah of " Akbar Bahini ", Shahid Sirajuddin Hossain ( an intellectual journalist killed by Rajakars during the war of Liberation ), Birprotik Golam Eyakub Molla, Late M. Khalilur Rahman ( Ex Chief Engineer, Ministry of Works ), Abu Saleh ( ekushey padak and bangla Academy Padak winner journalist and rhymer ), Dr. Shirajul Akbar M. P.

* Mike Gatting appeared as himself in September 2007 at the centre of a misunderstanding between Sid and Jolene Perks during the npower Village Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground.

* Mike Young ( Joined Australia Cricket Team in 2001, a former Professional Baseball Player, Manager & Coach )

Smith or Mike Smith ( born 30 June 1933, Westcotes, Leicestershire ) was a bespectacled cricketer who was captain of Oxford University Cricket Club ( 1956 ), Warwickshire County Cricket Club ( 1957-67 ) and the England cricket team ( 1963-66 ).

The show gave a stage to nightclub and working men's club comedians of the era, including Russ Abbot, Lennie Bennett, Stan Boardman, Jim Bowen, Jimmy Bright, Duggie Brown, Mike Burton, Dave Butler, Brian Carroll, Frank Carson, Jimmy Cricket, Colin Crompton, Charlie Daze, Vince Earl, Steve Faye, Eddie Flanagan, Stu Francis, Ken Goodwin, Jackie Hamilton, Jerry Harris, George King, Bobby Knutt, Bernard Manning, Paul Melba, Mick Miller, Tom O ' Connor, Tom Pepper, Bryn Phillips, Mike Reid, Mike McCabe, George Roper, Harry Scott, Sammy Thomas, Johnny Wager, Roy Walker, Charlie Williams, Lee Wilson and Lenny Windsor.

Mike Atherton replaced him as The Times Chief Cricket Correspondent on 1 May 2008 ; CMJ was to continue contributing to the Times cricket pages.

The most famous example of a reverse sweep backfiring was in the case of Mike Gatting of England against Allan Border of Australia in the 1987 Cricket World Cup final.

A Connoisseur's Cricket Anthology, eds Tom Graveney, Mike Seabrook.

This decision excluded players such as Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards and Mike Procter from partaking in international Test Cricket.

However in 2005 under the captaincy of Australian Mike Hussey Durham finished second and achieved promotion in both the County Championship and the one-day National Cricket League.

Notable Western Australia cricketers who also played for the Australian cricket team include Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee, who are inductees of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, and Bob Simpson, Kim Hughes, Geoff Marsh, Adam Gilchrist and Mike Hussey, who each captained Australia whilst playing for Western Australia.

* Player Profile: Mike Procter from Cricket Archive

Vincent became interested in cricket at an early age as his dad Mike used to represent Eden Roskill Cricket Club of Auckland in first grade cricket and took Lou too all the international matches at Eden Park.

Straczynski also wrote for CBS Storybreak, writing an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek ).

During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric — and often ironic — celebrations of traditional English culture and living: " Village Green " ( 1966 ), " Afternoon Tea " and " Autumn Almanac " ( both 1967 ), " The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains " ( 1968 ), " Victoria " ( 1969 ), " Have a Cuppa Tea " ( 1971 ) and " Cricket " ( 1973 ).

Within the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ), which administered English cricket at the time, few voices were more influential than " Plum " Warner's, who, when considering England's response to Bradman, wrote that it " must evolve a new type of bowler and develop fresh ideas and strange tactics to curb his almost uncanny skill ".

Bradman himself wrote four books: Don Bradman's Book – The Story of My Cricketing Life with Hints on Batting, Bowling and Fielding ( 1930 ), My Cricketing Life ( 1938 ), Farewell to Cricket ( 1950 ) and The Art of Cricket ( 1958 ).

The poet John Betjeman, who taught at Heddon Court School in 1929-30, wrote " The Cricket Master " about his experiences there.

In 1806, after Napoleon's victory in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Kotzebue fled to Russia and, in the safety of his estate in Estonia, wrote many satirical articles against Napoleon Bonaparte, published in his journals Die Biene ( The Bee ) and Die Grille ( The Cricket ).

He was usually also Stage Manager and wrote many epilogues at the end of the Canterbury Cricket Week.

Manley wrote seven books, including the award-winning A History of West Indies Cricket, in which he discussed the links between cricket and West Indian nationalism.

Smith wrote several extravaganzas for the Lyceum Theatre, including Aladdin ( 1844 ), Valentine and Orson ( 1844 ) and Whittington and His Cat ( 1845 ), and adapted for the same theatre Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth ( 1845 ) and The Battle of Life ( 1846 ).

In a short biographical essay on O ' Reilly for the Barclays World of Cricket book, his contemporary, the England cricketer Ian Peebles, wrote that " any scoring-stroke was greeted by a testy demand for the immediate return of the ball rather than a congratulatory word.

In a Sheffield Shield cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1930, Don Bradman, a young New South Welshman of just 21 years of age, wrote his name into the record books at by smashing the previous highest batting score in first-class cricket with 452 runs not out in just 415 minutes.

Cricket writer John Woodcock wrote in The Times that " his magnificent innings contained every stroke in the book.

Many years later, Warr wrote the biographical piece about Trueman in Barclays World of Cricket.

He also wrote for many shows, including a documentary entitled A Gottle of Geer for Channel 4, and the ITV show And There's More in 1985 which starred Jimmy Cricket.

He wrote a third book, Thirty Years in Cricket, in 1984.

He wrote articles on cricket art and history for the encyclopaedia Barclays World of Cricket.

Reviewing John Arlott: Cricket ’ s Radical Voice, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death, Gillian Reynolds wrote in the Daily Telegraph of " Arlott ’ s independence, his Englishness, sense of fairness and justice, sympathy for the underdog and relish for the beautiful and the good ".

Following the tour, Lawry wrote a series of newspaper articles that criticised the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ) and their treatment of the Australian team.

Root also wrote one well-known book about the life of professional cricketers, A Cricket Pro's Lot ( 1937 ).

Frindall's other works include the Wisden Book of Test Cricket ; the Playfair Cricket Annual, which he edited for 23 years, from 1986 until his death ; the Wisden Book of Cricket Records ; the Guinness Book of Cricket-Facts and Feats ; and the ' Cricket records ' section of the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, which he wrote for several years.