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Jeremy Lonsdale
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Author of several books on cricket history. Latest: 'An Unusual Celebrity: The Many Cricketing Lives of Bill Bowes' (Pitch Publishing). Shortlisted for the Cricket Writers' Club Derek Hodgson Book of the Year Award 2024.
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Very pleased that Pitch Publishing will publish my biography of the great Middlesex and England cricketer, and Brentford FC footballer, Patsy Hendren in June 2026. Available now to pre-order via @waterstones.bsky.social with 25% off Tuesday-Friday this week using the code below.
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Very pleased that Pitch Publishing will publish my biography of the great Middlesex and England cricketer, and Brentford FC footballer, Patsy Hendren in June 2026. Available now to pre-order via @waterstones.bsky.social with 25% off Tuesday-Friday this week using the code below.
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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15 September marks 50 years since Chris Balderstone scored 51 no for Leicestershire v Derbyshire, played for Doncaster v Brentford in the evening, and then completed his 100 next day and took 3 wickets as Leics won the championship. A proper shift @acscricket.bsky.social @anniechave.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Great to talk to Andrew Radd for County Cricket Matters on his life in cricket - BBC commentator, county historian and one of the most distinctive and knowledgeable voices on the county game. County Cricket Matters 24 out now:
www.countycricketmatters.com/product-page...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Good news!! Edition 24 of County Cricket Matters is out now!
Available online 🙏🏏

www.countycricketmatters.com/shop
September 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Our August books are on sale at shop.acscricket.com
Mick Pope writes on Fred Bakewell whose brilliant batting for Northants and England was ended by a road accident. shop.acscricket.com?product=fred...
Loose Ends is the final volume of our 'Hard to Get' scorecards shop.acscricket.com?product=firs...
Lives in Cricket: Fred Bakewell 'Among the Bright Colours' by Mick Pope. Photo shows Bakewell walking out to bat in an open-necked white shirt, sleeves rolled up. He is looking warily at the camera; the pavilion behind him is occupied by men in smart hats. First-Class Matches: Loose Ends Cover shows a monochrome image of a ball hitting a set of stumps
August 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Great to hear Max Bonnell discussing his recent @acscricket.bsky.social book 'Brick by Brick' on the 1964 Australian cricket tour on the Final Word podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqa...
Copies still available via the ACS shop
shop.acscricket.com?product=bric...
July 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Thanks so much to @jeremylonsdale.bsky.social for a lovely article in @ccmatters.bsky.social about the Cricket Research Network 😊

You can read the whole article by buying a copy of County Cricket Matters: www.countycricketmatters.com
For a game that is actually quite simple, there is an awful lot of complexity today around how cricket is played and organised. That was how I felt as I left the second conference organised by the Cricket Research Network, held at the ECB's Performance Centre at Loughborough University earlier this year. Player mental health, corruption and illegal betting, human rights and equality, as well as the governance of the game were just some of the always interesting, and sometimes controversial, topics discussed at the one-day event, attended by a broad mix of academics, students and others involved and interested in cricket.
June 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Pleased to have been among the mourners at the funeral of @acscricket.bsky.social co-founder Robert Brooke on Friday, and to raise a glass to him in the pub afterwards.

Admirers were welcomed to donate in Robert's memory to the Warwickshire Cricket Foundation edgbaston.com/foundation/
The order of service for Robert Brooke's funeral. The text reads 'Celebrating the Innings of Robert Brooke May 5, 1940 - May 15, 2025 Robin Hood Crematorium - June 13, 2025' A photo shows Robert holding the trophy for ACS Statistician of the Year.
June 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Thanks to Martin Chandler for a great review of the latest edition of County Cricket Matters.
www.cricketweb.net/books/ccm23/
Magazine now on sale at:
www.countycricketmatters.com/shop
June 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Great article in the latest edition of County Cricket Matters by Mick Pope about his forthcoming @acscricket.bsky.social book on the Northants and England cricketer Fred Bakewell, one of the most exciting batsmen of the 1930s. Publishing 1 August. @anniechave.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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It’s June - and that brings with it the next County Cricket Matters magazine 🏏
A celebration of the county game…

www.countycricketmatters.com/shop
June 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Is your dad serious about #cricket #history? This could be the #FathersDay present you’re looking for. 🏏📚

#BooksWorthReading
drcricket.bsky.social Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social · Nov 12
On #DifferentClass🏏📚

"A modern day John Arlott" - Lord Hain

"A book all #cricket lovers should read" - Mihir Bose

"the most invaluable contribution to cricket literature this century” - Tribune Magazine

“A worthy successor to Mike Marqusee" - Big Issue North

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June 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Great double page article on new @acscricket.bsky.social book on forgotten 1930s batting star David Walker in the latest edition of the Eastern Daily Press. Copies of Andy Dawson's excellent book available from
shop.acscricket.com?product=davi...

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May 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Just finished reading the excellent biography of David Walker, Andy Dawson deserves great credit for shining a spotlight on a Norfolk CCC player many will be unfamiliar with. 49 Minor Counties Championship matches, 3,997 runs at 63.44, 13 x 100’s & 19 x 50’s. Some player.
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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One of the latest by #acscricket is ‘Brick by Brick’ by #maxbonnell which explores the 1964 Australian tour of UK. The visitors won a dull series 1-0 & also in 1964, 13 years of Tory government ended. Bonnell’s study of the tour is fascinating. Go to shop.acscricket.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Martin Chandler has written an enthusiastic review of Max Bonnell's book on the 1964 Ashes, Brick by Brick, www.cricketweb.net/books/brick-... now on sale in the @acscricket.bsky.social shop shop.acscricket.com along with our spring annuals and a biography of David Walker, Norfolk's Master Batsman.
Brick by Brick: The Australian Cricketers in England 1964 | Cricket Web
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May 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A fabulous victory in three days 👏👏👏

Yorkshire Men win by 504 runs at Headingley to get off the mark in the Rothesay County Championship Division One!
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Biggest wins by runs in County Championship

504 Yorkshire v Worcestershire at Leeds 2025 TODAY
483 Surrey v Leicestershire at The Oval 2002
470 Sussex v Gloucestershire at Hove 1913
470 Hampshire v Essex at Southampton 2014
462 Nottinghamshire v Durham at Nottingham 2022

#CountyChampionship
April 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Did a short talk about County Cricket Matters at the Cricket Societies AGM today. What a fabulous job all these cricket societies do across the country to celebrate cricket. Please keep them going & join your nearest one!
@thecricketsociety.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Great to part of the vibrant and talented community of cricket writers at Pitch. Such a varied mix of subjects and styles
March 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A fabulous review of the latest County Cricket Matters 🙏👏

www.cricketweb.net/books/ccm22/
County Cricket Matters Issue 22 | Cricket Web
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March 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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IT IS HERE! The next edition of County Cricket Matters.
For those of you that like Patrick Eagar’s work there is my interview with him and featuring some of his early photographs.
And the usual fantastic articles.

To order please follow the link below -

www.countycricketmatters.com/shop
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Many thanks to @norfolkcricketsoc.bsky.social and to everyone who came to last night's talk in Norwich on my Pitch Publishing book 'An Unusual Celebrity: The Many Cricketing Lives of Bill Bowes'. A very enjoyable evening at another great cricket society.
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM