Neville Cardus, who is regarded by some as one of the greatest ever cricket writers and one of the century's most perceptive music critics, wrote for the "Manchester Guardian" for many years. This book of essays, reminiscences and obituaries celebrates the centenary of his birth. One of the few areas in which his work has ever been collected into a single volume is in "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", to which publication he contributed regularly between 1927 and his death.