Flying Stumps

184pp with 27 half-tone illustrations. . In green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering (a little spotting on text block edges). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a previous owner's name neatly written on the front free endpaper. In its original dust jacket (a little chipped on edges, minor shelf wear visible on reverse). At the end of the 1953 Australian cricket team tour, the incomparable Ray Lindwall had taken 158 test wickets. In this volume he traces his career from a cricket mad teenager to becoming Australia's shock bowler number one, and gives the story of dramatic Test Matches and off-the-field incidents.