Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#16) 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 151-160 of 1383. Previous|1...141516171819...139|Next Lot #151 J.M. Kilburn cricket journalist and author. ‘England v New Zealand’. Five page handwritten manuscript for an article written by Kilburn for the Yorkshire Post. The article is undated, but Kilburn is reporting on the first day’s play in the 1st Test, England v New Zealand at Trent Bridge, 7th June 1973, in which England ‘ran into heavier weather than the elements offered’ in their first innings, closing the first day having ‘struggled to a painstaking at 216 for nine wickets’. With the first wick View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #152 A.H. Randall, Bedford. 1930s-1940s. Box file containing a comprehensive collection of typed and neatly handwritten detailed statistics covering County cricket with particular Northamptonshire C.C.C. interest, apparently compiled by Randall in the 1930s and 1940s who, it is assumed, was attempting to compile a history of the Club. Included is a good selection of original letters, some with original envelopes, to and from County Clubs and others, many enquiring about wicket-keeping dismissals of t View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #153 Alan Ross, cricket writer, poet and publisher. ‘Play Abandoned’ by Louis Duffus. Three page article by Ross for ‘The Cricketer March [1970?]’ book review column on Duffus’ recently published autobiography, handwritten in ink on Cable and Wireless (West Indies) telegram paper with editorial annotations in red. Compared to Duffus’ previous books on South African cricket, Ross describes this title as of ‘disappointingly thin quality... this account of his travels reads as if whatever zest he felt f View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #154 E.W. Swanton. Original five page manuscript handwritten in ink by Swanton for an editorial article for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written during the M.C.C. tour to Australia in 1970/71 prior to the 1st Ashes Test of the series. The first two pages, titled ‘England Face The Crunch’, previews the Test series following ‘the traumatic experiences of the M.C.C. bowlers in the first State match at Adelaide [v South Australia who scored 649/9 dec. in their only innings of the drawn match]’ but predic View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #155 Richie Benaud. Two page article handwritten in ink by Benaud on the dominance of the West Indies in Test cricket. The article is undated, but would probably have been written in the late 1970s/ early 1980s. Benaud opens by saying ‘I think it is absolutely ridiculous to say WI are ruining Test cricket. You could get away with saying they are ruining the reputations of opposition players... but that is what teams try to do’, and admires their ‘tremendous... abilities and demeanour. It is up to the View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #156 West Indies v Australia. Prudential World Cup Semi-final 1975. Original five page typescript for an article by Arlott, possibly for The Guardian newspaper, with his handwritten amendments in ink, and a supplementary page of handwritten inserts to the text titled ‘J.A. copy- Oval 14.6.75’. Arlott is reporting on the West Indies victory by seven wickets in the final Group B match played at Kennington Oval, 14th June 1975, stating ‘apart from a thinness in the fifth bowling place... [West Indies] w View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #157 Richard Hadlee. Two page typescript of an article by Hadlee with accompanying covering letter to P.B.L. Marketing in Sydney, dated 13th May 1980, both the letter and the article signed in ink by Hadlee. The article, with alterations and additions in Hadlee’s own hand, relates to New Zealand’s ‘impressive record in on day cricket’, and their victory ‘against all odds’ over West Indian world champions at Christchurch. Hadlee describes it as ‘a fine performance... but it was a pity that our perform View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #158 Basil Easterbrook, cricket and sports journalist. Seventeen pages of articles handwritten in pencil by Easterbrook covering the 5th (final) Test, England v West Indies, Kennington Oval 12th- 17th August 1976. Easterbrook reports on a match featuring two first innings double centuries, 291 by Viv Richards for West Indies, and Dennis Amiss with 203 for England. West Indies won by 231 runs to take the series 3-0, the first two Tests having been drawn. Easterbrook reports that this final Test was ma View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #159 ‘England v Australia 1972’. Original four page typed manuscript by Hutton for an article previewing the impending ‘Ashes’ series. Hutton opens with his pleasure at that Winter is over ‘and we can get back to sanity and sunshine with our summer games’, and remembers supporting Leeds United ‘in the days of Edwards, Hart and Copping, also the Milburn brothers, I shivered more times than I care to remember watching the stars of those days’. Hutton then continues with an assessment of the forthcoming View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #160 Richard ‘Richie’ Benaud. New South Wales & Australia 1948-1964. Two page typed tribute to Keith Miller and Denis Compton, written by Benaud with covering typed letter dated 18th December 1995 from Benaud to Mick Pope of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Benaud is ‘delighted the Society is offering Keith Miller and Denis Compton a tribute’, and Benaud recollects playing with Miller and against Compton, ‘two great names in cricket’ who both had ‘flair’. 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