Cricket Coaching: Part 15
Wicket Keeping & Fielding (continued)
Published 21st July 1950 in
The Eagle 🦅
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Cricket Coaching: Parts 11 & 12
11) Forcing Back Stroke Past Cover
12) Miscellaneous Strokes
The Eagle 🦅
23rd and 30th June 1950
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Cricket Coaching - Part 10.
The Square Cut
The Eagle 🦅 16th June 1950
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Cricket Coaching - Parts 8 & 9:
Throwing In - For Accuracy
and
Throwing In Fast
As published in The Eagle 🦅 on the 2nd & 9th June 1950
Apologies for the poor quality reproduction of Part 8.
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Cricket Coaching #7:
The Hook Shot.
The Eagle 🦅 26th May 1950.
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As a reward for anyone who sat through that “Hundred” nonsense yesterday.
Part 6 of “Cricket Coaching by Learie Constantine”:
Bowling.
Published in The Eagle 🦅
19th May 1950.
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Mr and Mrs Learie Constantine are received by local dignitaries prior to the East Lancashire CC v Nelson CC Lancashire League fixture in August 1929. Left to right, J. A. Ormerod, J. P. (Mayor), Mrs Norma Constantine, A. E. Higham (East Lancashire Cricket Club Chairman), H. Bottomley, J. P. (President East Lancashire CC) and Learie N. Constantine (Nelson CC).
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While county cricket was effectively still-born, leagues flourished at the recreational level.
The most famous league was the #LancashireLeague where #LearieConstantine played. And yet, professionalism was, like the league format, common throughout the North and South of England prior to #WW1.