Tim Quelch's sixty-year account of growing up and older with cricket, spanning 1952 to the present day. Scandals and trends, unforgettable events and heroes come and go in English cricket just as in Quelch's vivid backdrop of cultural change, while the fortunes of the Test side oscillate as wildly as his ever-shifting soundtrack of popular music.

"[This book] is ... Quelch's sixty-year account of growing up and growing older with cricket, spanning the period between Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne in 1952 and the present day. [He provides a] vivid backdrop of cultural change-- [and] shifting soundtracks of popular music"--Back cover.