"In all the annals of cricket there has been no player with so remarkable and inspiring a story to tell." Sir Neville Cardus, from his foreword.
From Dickie Dodd's Introduction: "So here is the story he got me to write. It is told in the setting of the work of a run-of-the-mill cricketer, the week-in-week-out county round. But first I must tell a little about my life before entering first-class cricket, for it is the way in which my re-discovery of God affected my game which Sir Neville most wanted me to describe. While my love of cricket began, as he says, in my father’s vicarage garden, faith became a working reality rather than a formality or an irritant during my time in the Army and immediately afterwards. So, if I am to fulfill my commission, a little autobiography is unavoidable."
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