Fred: Portrait of a Fast Bowler

How to understand the man behind the public image? If you take your cue from a modern-day sports publishing house, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a forensic approach to your subject’s private life was the most revealing route. Tip over his bins to find the man within, if you like.

A writer like John Arlott was from a different school, perhaps a different age. For Arlott, sp... read more