A Game Divided: Triumphs and troubles in Yorkshire cricket in the 1920s
About this ebook
A Game Divided takes as its starting point the events during the match between Yorkshire and Middlesex at Sheffield in July 1924, which provoked a falling out between the counties. These events and how they were portrayed shine a light on many of the divisions in English cricket of the time – between north and south, amateur and professional, employer and employee, and between different perspectives on sportsmanship and the style in which the game should be played. The book looks at the triumphs and troubles that shaped Yorkshire cricket in the decade and asks just how great was this side of match-winners.
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About the author
This is Jeremy Lonsdale’s fourth book on the history of cricket in Yorkshire. The first – A Game Taken Seriously: The foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power (ACS Publications, 2017) – was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History for books published in 2017, and longlisted for the Cricket Society/ MCC Cricket Book of the Year Award 2018. It examined the social history of cricket in Yorkshire in the 19th century. In 2019, he followed it with A Game Sustained: the Impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20 (ACS Publications, 2019), which looked at how cricket in Yorkshire survived the First World War and recovered afterwards. In 2018, his biography of Yorkshire all-rounder and captain, Tom Emmett (Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket) was published by the ACS.
Born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Jeremy lives in Kent. His first book was a biography of the Hampshire batsman, Brig-Gen. R.M.Poore (The Army’s Grace: The Life of Brigadier General R.M.Poore, Spellmount, 1992). He received the ACS Cricket Statistician of the Year Award for 2018.
