Hampshire Cricket in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Timothy J McCann with Dave Allen (see note below by clicking on this arrow)
Price £20 (plus £5 postage) - available by contacting Hampshire Cricket Heritage at hantscccheritage@gmail.com
Please note that all of our HCH Supporters can purchase for £15 (plus £5 postage)
In 2004, Archivist Dr Tim J McCann published an award-winning History of 18th Century Sussex Cricket. He then began work on a similar project for neighbouring Hampshire, but sadly, he died in 2022 before the project was completed. In the summer of 2024, Tim's wife Alison gave a printed copy of this unfinished project to the Hampshire Records Office and then made a digital copy available to HCH Director Dave Allen. Since then, Dave has worked on this project and the result is this fantastic new publication.
Hampshire Cricket Heritage's Own Recent Booklets
All Priced £5 in the Club Shop or £8.50 by post
(email request to Glen Williams at HCH using the email address: hantscccheritage@gmail.com)
Simply the Best? Kyle Abbott 17-86 (2020) Dave Allen - available in the Club Shop
2. Hampshire County Cricketers update 2019-2021 (2022) Dave Allen - available in the Club Shop
3. Derek Shackleton; the Ageas Bowl Display (2023) Dave Allen - available in the Club Shop
4. Champions: Hampshire's County Championship 1973 (2023)Dave Allen - available in the Club Shop
5. Ordained Hampshire Cricketers (2024) Stephen Saunders - available in the Club Shop
6. A Glorious Week - Hampshire in Portsmouth August 1974 (2024) John Winter - available in the Club Shop
7. 2014: Going Up! Hampshire's Division Two Promotion Season (2024) Dave Allen - available in the Club Shop
8. Hampshire's Naval Cricketers (2025) Stephen Saunders - available in the Club Shop
Newly Published January 2025
Number 8 in the HCH Booklet Series
Dave Allen
with Jimmy Adams, James Tomlinson,
Giles White and Chris Wood
Cost £5 and signed by the author, Dave
Published in August 2024
Number 7 in the HCH Booklet Series
Published in June 2024
Number 6 in the HCH Booklet Series
Hampshire in Portsmouth August 1974
John Winter
with
Bob Stephenson, Bob Herman, Trevor Jesty and Mike Taylor
Copies of the Limited Edition of 200 are available for £5 in the Hampshire Shop at the Utilita Bowl or by contacting Hampshire Cricket Heritage at hantscccheritage@gmail.com
Published in April 2024
Number 5 in the HCH Booklet Series
Number Five in the Series
Copies are available for £5 in the Hampshire Shop at the Utilita Bowl or by contacting Hampshire Cricket Heritage at hantscccheritage@gmail.com
Number Four in the Series
50 years on from the brilliant championship win against all the odds (66-1 at the start of that season in 1973), Dave’s account of that triumph became available to buy for £5 last March.
Copies are available for £5 in the Hampshire Shop at the Utilita Bowl or by contacting Hampshire Cricket Heritage at hantscccheritage@gmail.com
Number Three in the Series
The third one on DEREK SHACKLETON complements the new Shackleton display in the Pavilion which Dave organised in conjunction with the club. Dave wrote in his book "Hampshire County Cricketers", in his entry for Derek, "By a number of statistical measures, pace bowler Derek Shackleton was the greatest of all Hampshire bowlers".
Number Two in the Series
Number One in the Series
SIMPLY THE BEST ?
Kyle Abbot’s 17-86 against Somerset at the Ageas Bowl in September 2019 were the finest figures - by a pace bowler - ever recorded in a first class fixture in the history of cricket in this country. The achievement prompted Dave in 2020 to launch the first monograph produced by Hampshire Cricket Heritage.