Cricket

Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

by Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Lyttelton, Andrew Lang (Contributor)

Excerpt: "Steel played in the first ever Test Match in England at The Oval in 1880, then in the famous Test which England narrowly lost in 1882. The mock obituary was published in The Sporting Times saying "R.I.P. English Cricket...the body will be cremated and the Ashes will be taken to Australia."

Genres: Nonfiction

408 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 1888

About the author

Allan Gibson Steel (24 September 1858 – 15 June 1914) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1877 to 1893, and in Test cricket for England from 1880 to 1888.

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