Sunday, March 11, 2007

Cardus On Cricket - Neville Cardus


This book was initially published in 1949 and was called "The Essential Neville Cardus". The 1949 book contained not only cricket essays but also 4 music essays. This book (Cardus on Cricket) focuses solely on cricket and the 4 music essays have been removed.

For people who haven't read anything written by Cardus, this book will serve as an excellent primer. It contains Cardus' cricket writings from the following books:
A Cricketer's Book (1922)
Days in the Sun (1924)
The Summer Game (1929)
Cricket (1930)
Good Days (1934) and
Australian Summer (1937)

It goes without saying that this book is AWESOME. We especially loved the essays on W.G. Grace, A.C. MacLaren, Bradman, and Larwood. Instead of using cliche's to describe how good some of Cardus' writing is, we will let Cardus speak for himself:
"So much for the season and the setting, the time and the place. The game itself is a capricious blend of elements, static and dynamic, sensational and somnolent. You can never take your eyes from a cricket match for fear of missing a crisis. For hours, it will proceed to a rhythm as lazy as the rhythm of an airless day. Then we stretch ourselves on deck chairs and smoke our pipes and talk of a number of things-the old 'uns insisting that in their time batsmen used to hit the ball. A sudden bad stroke, a good ball, a marvellous catch, and the crowd is awake; a bolt has been hurled into our midst from a clear sky. When cricket burns a dull slow fire it only needs a single swift wind of circumstance to set everything into a blaze that consumes nerves and senses. In no other game do events of import hang so bodefully on a single act. In no other game does one little mistake lead to mischief so irreparable. You get another chance at football if you foozle a kick; but Hobbs in all his majesty must pass out of the scene for hours if for a second he should fall into the error that hedges all mortal activity. Many a great match has been lost by a missed catch; terrible are the emotions of long-on when the ball is driven high towards him and when he waits for it - alone in the world - and the crowd roars and somebody cries out, 'He'll miss it-He'll miss it!' Years ago, in a match for the rubber in Australia, Clem Hill and Victor Trumper were making a mighty stand, turning the wheel of the game against England. Here were two of the greatest batsmen of all time thoroughly set, scourging the English attack with unsparing weapons. Hour after hour they cut and drove right and left. Wilfred Rhodes, who seems always to have been playing cricket, tossed up over after over, angling for the catch in the deep. At the very moment when the fortunes of the battle were on the turn, moving definitely Australia's way - at this moment of fate, Clem Hill let his bat swing at a ball for all he worth in valour and strength. Up into the sky the ball went, and it began to drop where A. E. Knight was standing. All eyes were resting on Knight; the vast Sydney multitude were dead still as the ball fell like a stone. Knight held his catch, but as he did so, he was seen to go down on one knee, and bow his head. Some of the English players, thinking Knight was ill, moved towards him. But as they approached, Knight raised himself, made an explanatory gesture, swallowed emotion in a gulp, and said to his anxious colleagues, 'It's all right, it's all right; I was only thanking my maker.' Cricket can mean much to a man: responsibility can weigh down the strongest."
Cardus' idea of a great batsman:
"Often have I been told by my readers that my praises of modern batsmanship are doled out parsimoniously. Sometimes, indeed, I have thought so myself. In imagination I see myself walking about our cricket fields like a Diogenes looking with a sceptical lamp for a really great batsman. Frankly, I cannot get enthusiastic about the cricket of a Sandham, a Hearne, a Sutcliffe. I was not brought up amongst cricketers who got their run by waiting for a very bad ball, then hitting it to the boundary-after lunch. Here is my idea of a great batsman: he must obviously enjoy his own play; he must be courageous and skillful in the face of a fine attack and in a bad hour for his side. He must not bow to circumstances, but must take them in his own hands and bend a situation to his will. Above all, his cricket must delight us by its own beauty, power, resource, individuality..."

We could go on and on...read the book. It's very good.

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Not apropos anything just read this....
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/284838.html

Perhaps Monkey Boy is not, but I am old enough to remember that series. In those days of "not-impartial" umpiring, Australia played with 13 people on the field, including the umpires of course. Sunny Gavaskar got bum decisions practically every other match by an umpire called Whitehead. In the first match, both innings he was given out caught behind twice controversially. Monkey boy is not old enough to remember that Gavaskar was a guy who thoughout his career walked when he was out. It was a rare occasion when he awaited an umpire's decision (for LBW typically). That series was also terrible for sledging.
Oh...and by the way, we kicked Oz's ass at MCG in 1980-81. Got them out under 90 runs, if I correctly recall.
Monkey boy should leave the likes of Gavaskar alone. They were people with class. He isn't

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