1975
A good summer for England in 1974 - albeit a cold and wet one - was tempered by a dismal Ashes tour which followed. Blighted by injury and hostile fast bowling. Short-pitched bowling was foremost in the editor's mind as he wrote on the "Menace of Short Pitched Bouncers". Counties faced severe financial difficulties - Middlesex asked all 7000 members for £10 each to avoid imminent bankruptcy. The retirement of Garry Sobers - who was knighted in the New Year - elicited a lengthy and glowing tribute.
Editor Norman Preston
Pages 1142
Price £3.00 (soft) / £2.75 (cloth)
Almanack essays
Home alone
Likely England talent
200 years of laws
And LBW still the most controversial, 1975
Buying back one's past
Advertising and the Almanack, 1975
Gilbert Jessop the most exciting cricketer of them all
The game's greatest box office attraction, 1975
Israeli cricket
New to International Cricket Conference, 1975
Old Trafford humiliated
The best and greenest turf anywhere, 1975
Sir Garfield Sobers
Cricket's most versatile performer, 1975
The joy of touring
The willing workhorses of first-class cricket
The men who keep county cricket alive, 1975
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