One Long and Beautiful Summer av Duncan Hamilton

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<p>*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER*<br><br><b>''Hamilton''s book is a marvel . . . I''m not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried''</b><i>Spectator </i><br><br>One of Duncan Hamilton''s favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: ''You arrive early, earlier even than you meant . . . and you feel a little guilty at the thought of the day you propose to give up to sheer luxury''.<br><br>Following Neville Cardus''s assertion that ''there can be no summer in this land without cricket'', Hamilton plotted the games he would see in 2019 and write down reflectively on some of the cricket that blessed his own sight. It would be captured in the context of the coming season in case subsequent summers and the imminent arrival of The Hundred made that impossible. He would write in the belief that after this season the game might never be quite the same again.<br><br>He visits Welbeck Colliery Cricket Club to see Nottinghamshire play Hamps