LIONEL TENNYSON REGENCY BUCK

LIONEL TENNYSON REGENCY BUCK

by Alan Edwards (Author)

Synopsis

Lord Lionel Tennyson was one of cricket's most colourful characters of the last century. On the field he was a charismatic team captain and hard-hitting batsman with a penchant for smiting sixes, while off the field his exploits would have been a godsend to today's tabloids. With his prodigious appetite for the high life, substantial gambling losses and relentless womanising, in modern times he would never have been out of the headlines. But for his vicissitudes, he might have lead England more often. There is little doubt that he was regarded with considerable suspicion by the hierarchy at Lord's, and he was thought too much of a risk to lead a full England team abroad. But though their fears were not unfounded, he might have exceeded expectations if he'd been granted the opportunity. He probably took Test cricket more seriously than anything else in his life. In the first biography of this complex, talented sportsman, Alan Edwards attempts to separate fact from fiction and examines in fascinating detail the man behind the myth.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
Published: 23 May 2001

ISBN 10: 1861053908
ISBN 13: 9781861053909

Author Bio
Alan Edwards has been the editor of the Hampshire Cricket Society Newsletter since April 1982, and has contributed to The Hampshire Handbook, Hampshire-The County Magazine and The Cricket Statistician - The Journal of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He is also the author of Milestones of Hampshire Cricket, published by Hampshire Cricket Society in 198