David FrithDavid Frith has written thirty books on cricket since 1969 and founded Wisden Cricket Monthly and edited that best-selling magazine until 1996. In 1988 he was voted British Magazine Writer of the Year. His pictorial history of the Ashes Test mtches has run to twelve editions and sold over 100,000 copies. He is an honorary life member of the Cricket Writers' Club, vice-president of the Cricket Memorabilia Society, and member of MCC, and his close friends have included John Arlott, E.W.Swanton and Sir Donald Bradman. Each year since 1981 he has presented archive cricket film shows at the National Film Theatre in London to packed houses. A player himself for 49 years (some of them as a first-grade batsman in Australia), it is generally considered that in cricket matters David Frith knows what he is talking about, and has never been afraid to speak out in the interests of the game he has loved for sixty years. Read More Read Less