A sequel to the award-winning 'The Way It Was', `Cricketing Allsorts' is a collection of 53 articles, written for a range of publications. There is an essay, written for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, on how English cricket survived during World War Two, and another, written specially for this volume, on how county cricket started again after World War One. There is the story of a Middlesex/Somerset match in 1947, obituaries that appeared in The Independent, celebrations of great Test performances by Herbert Sutcliffe and Jim Laker, the life stories of Surrey's Bernie Constable and Sussex's Rupert Webb, some memorable matches in the history of the county championship ... and much more.