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Cricket » Cricket Books » Cricket Biographies » PARSON'S PITCH (TED DEXTER'S COPY)

PARSON'S PITCH (TED DEXTER'S COPY)

PARSON
PARSON

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SIGNED

A personal account of how the author balanced his cricket career with his religious calling.

8vo. 253pp. 10 pages of photographs.  Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Very good. Signed and dedicated by Sheppard to fly-leaf to Ted (Dexter) "with happy thoughts of Australia 1962-63" and dated 1964. The two had been rivals for the captaincy of the tour, with Dexter finally chosen to lead  - the series was drawn 1-1.

Date
1964
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Author
David SHEPPARD

£50.00 (Code: 97606)

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