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One Hundred Years of the l'Anson Cup, A Century Not OutAuthor: Graham CoyylerOne Hundred Years of the l'Anson Cup, A Century Not Out Queen Victoria had been dead a day and the country was in deep mourning. But a planned meeting for the evening of January 23, 1901, went ahead. Five men went to the Fox and Pelican public house in Grayshott on the Hampshire-Surrey border near Hindhead, and the decision they took was to form a cricket league. PublisherBreedon Books ISBN978 1 85983 327 6 Price in GBP£14.99 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graham Collyer was born into a family steeped in the history of the l'Anson Cup. His grandfather had played locally since before World War One, and was the Rowledge wicketkeeper at the outbreak of World War Two.
Graham played cricket for Elstead and Tilford. He was taken to see his first l'Anson cup match in the late 1940s, when Rowledge, where he was born, twice won the trophy, and he was in the large crowd that witnessed Elstead, where he grew up, pull off the shock result of the entire history of the competitions when they beat The Bourne in the 1952 play-off at Tolford.
He is the author of many books on the local history of Surrey, and has also written books on the history of Farnham, Tilford and The Bourne cricket clubs.
In 1983 he tracked down the cricket bat that has been made in Farnham in 1815 for the legendary player William 'Silver Billy' Beldham, born in Wrecclesham in 1766, died in Tilford in 1862. It was, said Wisden Cricked Monthly, the 'cricket find of the century.'
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