{"product_id":"9781780574202","title":"Hedley Verity: Portrait of a Cricketer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe name of Hedley Verity, the master bowler of unyielding menace, is one to be cherished more than 50 years after his death. Allan Hill tells the story of a magnificent sporting obsession in this reissue of the first full-length biography of a revered cricketer. Verity headed the English first-class bowling averages in his first  season with Yorkshire and twice took ten wickets in an innings in  consecutive seasons. Overall, his mesmeric left-hand spin yielded 1,956 wickets, including 144 for England, in less than ten  years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book, winner of the Cricket Society's Jubilee Literary award in 1986, contains a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman (whom  Verity twice dismissed at Lord's in June 1934 to mastermind England's only victory over Australia at cricket's 'headquarters' in a century). It also includes a revealing memoir of Verity's boyhood and an Australian tour journal (1932-33) kept by the Yorkshireman for his relatives and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story ends with a graphic account of Verity's ultimate heroism during the Second World War and is followed by a full statistical analysis of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152237510896,"sku":"9781780574202","price":21.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780574202_p0.jpg?v=1763714007","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780574202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}