The Valiant Cricketer: The Biography of Trevor Bailey

Three times an Ashes winner, Trevor Bailey is regarded along with Ian Botham as England's premier all-rounder since the Second World War. He was a schoolboy prodigy at Dulwich College and won cricket and soccer blues at Cambridge University and an FA Amateur Cup winners' medal with Walthamstow in 1951/2. At the heart of the story is the fighting spirit of a loyalist who served England - and his home county Essex - so well in a crisis. Bailey played in 61 Tests in which he became only the second Englishman to score 2000 runs and take 100 wickets. After retirement from first-class cricket, he became a broadcaster on the BBC's Test Match Special programme.

• Biography is fully endorsed and supported by the family of the late Trevor Bailey
• Comprehensive colour photo section, including previously unpublished pictures from the Bailey family's personal collection
• Foreword by Doug Insole, a close friend and colleague of Bailey since their days together at Cambridge University, and later a top cricket administrator
• The author is the critically acclaimed Alan Hill, a close friend of Bailey and twice the winner of the prestigious Cricket Society Literary Award for his biographies of fellow Yorkshiremen Hedley Verity and Herbert Sutcliffe