This week I released two podcasts that were accidentally linked. The first was Ashley Gray talking about his book the Unforgiven West Indian Rebel cricketers. The book is on the 1980s when players headed off to South Africa to make a lot more money than they would at home.
Leslie Hylton was a worrying case of rebel and class, but in a deeply fractured social sense. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to be executed for murder. The Jamaican right-arm fast seamer and aggressive lower-order batsman was a sensation in his first Test in January 1935 against RES Wyatt’s MCC in their winter tour of the West Indies. The story that follows was horrific from every angle. https://dropinpitch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/tragic-story-of-leslie-hylton/
Remember Fire in Babylon when Colin Croft said that the Rebel Tours and World Series Cricket were morally equivalent? The Rebel Tour matches are treated as First Class and List A games but the World Series Cricket Super Tests and ODIs aren't similarly treated as First Class and List A games. I wish Cricket Australia and the WICB would allow these games to be given equal status with the Rebel Tours if the Rebel Tours are going to be given official status.
Leslie Hylton was a worrying case of rebel and class, but in a deeply fractured social sense. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to be executed for murder. The Jamaican right-arm fast seamer and aggressive lower-order batsman was a sensation in his first Test in January 1935 against RES Wyatt’s MCC in their winter tour of the West Indies. The story that follows was horrific from every angle. https://dropinpitch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/tragic-story-of-leslie-hylton/
Remember Fire in Babylon when Colin Croft said that the Rebel Tours and World Series Cricket were morally equivalent? The Rebel Tour matches are treated as First Class and List A games but the World Series Cricket Super Tests and ODIs aren't similarly treated as First Class and List A games. I wish Cricket Australia and the WICB would allow these games to be given equal status with the Rebel Tours if the Rebel Tours are going to be given official status.