Fifty years of the essays, newspaper articles and press reports from Neville Cardus, the great cricket writer. Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and here is a representative selection of the best of Cardus s writing on the sport. Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus s descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his Shastbury writings.