THE COMPLETE LEG-BREAK BOWLER - 1968 - GREAT BUY!

This is a great opportunity to pick up a copy of this hard to find book at a very cheap price! 

This book makes one claim only, says the author: "it is practical.  More than a handbook on bowling, it is an attempt to pass on and share the riches of cricker that I have enjoyed and loved."

C.S. Marriott began his first-class career in 1919 with Lancashire.  He is remembered, of course, as a Kent player, particularly in double-harness with perhaps the greatest of slow leg-spiners, A.P. 'Tich' Freeman, of whom he gives a delightful portrait in this book.  He also played for England, but his appearances in first-class cricket were always limited by his profession - he was a schoolmaster, first at Tonbridge and then at Dulwich.  But he is, as a result, the ideal instructor.  His practical experience at the highest level of lthe game is allied to a delightfully clear warm style, from which the young cricketer will quickly gather the tricks of his chosen trade, while the older player will not only enjoy the way Marriott illustrates his points with apposite memories from his own career, but will find himself saying 'if only I had this book by me when I was learning to bowl...'

C.S. Marriott died in 1965.  He had planned to write a book on all types of bowling, but he only finished the chapters  on leg-break bowling - including the top-spinner, the googly, and the left-handed leg-break bowler.  They form, however, a complete treatise on the craft to which Ian Peebles and Richie Benaud, two other famous leg-break and googly bowlers, have added their characteristic contributions.

This 176 page hardcover has some  marks,  light creases and a little edgewear to dustjacket.  There is some mottling to page edges due to age, but this does not impact on page face and is otherwise in a very good, tight, clean condition. 

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