A Game Emerging: Yorkshire Cricket before the coming of the All England Eleven – AVAILABLE FROM THE AUTHOR

By Jeremy Lonsdale

This publication is no longer available from ACS stock.

However the author, Jeremy Lonsdale, still has copies available for purchase; please contact him by email at livesincricket@acscricket.com.

William Clarke’s All England Eleven first appeared in Yorkshire in 1846, helping transform the game in the north of England, which had long lagged behind London and the south-east. Yet, while there is no doubt Clarke’s men played a crucial role in stimulating interest in cricket in Yorkshire, the game there was already more popular and better developed before their arrival than is usually recognised.

A Game Emerging examines how cricket spread in Yorkshire from the 1750s to the 1840s, and is the prequel to Jeremy’s 2017 book A Game Taken Seriously, which covered the second half of the 19th century.

You can listen to an interview with Jeremy on YouTube.

Of the other volumes in this series, A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20, has now sold out but is one of the ACS titles available as an ebook on Google Play, while A Game Taken Seriously and A Game Divided: Triumphs and troubles in Yorkshire cricket in the 1920s are sold out.