James Aylward: The Untold Story

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By Roy Clarke

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Hardback

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Apr 2002
• ISBN: Cricket00220
• Pages: 88

From the Publisher:

The first classic book of cricket's literature is John Nyren's "The Cricketers of my Time", but Nyren was not responsible for all of that book. Apart from a declared 'editor', Charles Cowden Clarke, a section of the book - 'A Few Memoranda Respecting the Progress of Cricket' - was not Nyren's work and its author has remained unknown since 1833.

The authorship of 'A Few Memoranda Respecting the Progress of Cricket' was attributed by Nyren to "an old cricketer" but who this was has never been discovered, until Roy Clarke set himself the task of solving the mystery.

After years of research and untold hours of theorising, Roy Clarke has prepared a most convincing case as to the identity of the mysterious 'Old Cricketer'. This gentleman, as the title of his book clearly suggests, was James Aylward.

But Roy Clarke's book does far more than unravel this centuries old mystery. It explains the move from a two-stump to a three-stump wicket, why James Aylward played a famed marathon and then record innings of 167 for Hampshire v England at Sevenoaks in 1777 and much else of the cricket of Aylward's time.

The book is a limited-edition of 500 copies.