Signed, limited edition of 62 hardback copies - JT Tyldesley in Australia. The Heart and Hope of England: Ric Sissons
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JT Tyldesley in Australia
The Heart and Hope of England
Ric Sissons
Published by Red Rose Books, Blackpool, 2023
Original pictorial hard cloth.
8vo (iv) + 58 pages, illustrated.
Limited edition of 62 hardback copies, signed by Ric Sissons.
John Tommy Tyldesley was England’s best
UK post free only, please e-mail for overseas postage charges
JT Tyldesley in Australia
The Heart and Hope of England
Ric Sissons
Published by Red Rose Books, Blackpool, 2023
Original pictorial hard cloth.
8vo (iv) + 58 pages, illustrated.
Limited edition of 62 hardback copies, signed by Ric Sissons.
John Tommy Tyldesley was England’s best professional batsman of the so-called Golden Age. Tyldesley toured Australia in 1901-02 and 1903-04. Expectations were high and he did not disappoint. In the Second Test in January 1904 in Melbourne, Tyldesley played his greatest ever innings in Australia. On a difficult, sticky wicket, John Tommy made 62 in England’s total of 103. England won the Test and eventually the series. Albert Knight wrote in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph that Tyldesley’s ‘batting in this match overshadowed that of Trumper’. Rare praise indeed. Before 1914, Tyldesley and Trumper were the two best batsmen on wet wickets. No wonder Knight describes Tyldesley as the ‘heart and hope’ of the side. Tyldesley was a player who knew his worth. With Len Braund, he tried to get more money from the MCC for the 1903-04 tour. They failed. The hard-headed Tyldesley would not be fooled again.