The knight who had it right
It is 30 years since Sir Neville Cardus left us and his reputation as the prince of sportswriters remains secure, writes Michael Henderson
View ArticleThe Majestic MacLaren that wasn't
Gideon Haigh looks at the creation of a majestic cricketer in Archie MacLaren by writer Neville Cardus
View ArticleA crusader on and off the field
The news of Botham's knighthood is wonderfully appropriate and shamefully overdue
View ArticleLocal colour
Cardus' account of the 1936-37 Ashes tour gives rein to his desire to write about more than just the cricket
View ArticleFlawless and felicitous
Cardus may not have been the best cricket writer ever, but his autobiography certainly is the best-written cricket book of them all
View ArticleNeville Cardus' writing
The man made matches come alive - so what if at times they read vastly different from what actually happened on the field
View ArticleLife of Cardus
One of its four forewords is written by Andrew Flintoff. That oddity apart, the book is exhaustive in covering the life and work of the man who changed cricket writing
View ArticleMy life in cricket writing (and reading)
A player tells of how he came to fall into the line of work followed by Cardus, Arlott and others of that ilk
View ArticleThe man who made characters out of cricketers
With his romantic bent and interest in the human condition, Neville Cardus influenced generations of cricket writers to follow
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