Cricket: Book Review - Satisfyingly Odd Tales to Take in Between the Tumbling Wickets ; the Ashes' Strangest Moments by Mark Baldwin Robson Books 4sportsbooks Price: Pounds 7.19 (Saving 20% On Published Price

Birmingham Post › July 30, 2005

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Many a hiker attempting to walk Offa's Dyke path, the lower reaches of which follow the beautiful Wye valley, will eventually happen upon the small village of St Briavels. Apart from being home to one of the valley's most welcoming pubs, the village houses St Briavels castle, formerly a royal hunting lodge, where King John and his advisers are believed to have drafted the Magna Carta, one of the most significant events in British history.

But the village is famous for another, some would say equally significant reason, this time of a sporting nature, for it was here, in 1851, that Billy Midwinter was born.

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Cricket: Book Review - Satisfyingly Odd Tales to Take in Between the Tumbling Wickets ; the Ashes' Strangest Moments by Mark Baldwin Robson Books 4sportsbooks Price: Pounds 7.19 (Saving 20% On Published Price

After his parents emigrated to Australia, Midwinter developed into a fine enough cricketer to play for the Australians against England in...

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