Double Headers

Keith Walmsley

2013年5月 · Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

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In Double Headers Keith Walmsley throws light into one of cricket’s more intriguing, if inconsequential, obscure corners by investigating the background of the two occasions in England when one county has been engaged in two first-class matches at the same time. Were they the result of mistakes in drawing up the fixture lists, or was there a more rational explanation? Double Headers also explores issues of team selection for these games, and looks into why there has been no recurrence since 1919 of a county playing two first-class matches at once.

As well as examining these two instances in detail, it also identifies and explains the background to numerous other occasions, from all around the cricketing world, when teams ‘double-headed’, and even ‘triple-headed’. These include over two dozen other instances in Britain, and even some instances in Test cricket.

In Double Headers Keith Walmsley throws light into one of cricket’s more intriguing, if inconsequential, obscure corners by investigating the background of the two occasions in England when one county has been engaged in two first-class matches at the same time. Were they the result of mistakes i...

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Keith Walmsley is a retired chartered town planner, born in Middlesex but resident for over 40 years in Reading - and still wondering how in 1981 he failed to attend the one and only first-class match ever played in the town. An enthusiastic but incompetent player, he took early refuge in the facts and figures of the game. He has been a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians since the mid-1970s, and Statistical officer of The Cricket Society since 1996. His previous publications have included three editions of Mosts Without in Test Cricket, the ACS Famous Cricketers volume on long-time hero Clem Hill, and the Lives in Cricket volumes Brief Candles and Brief Candles 2.