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Ranjitsinhji's 'Jubilee Book of Cricket' — The First Modern Cricket Manual, 1897

England, Sussex, India

1897-06-22

Published in June 1897 to coincide with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Ranjitsinhji's Jubilee Book of Cricket was the most ambitious cricket manual ever produced and the first to be illustrated with photographs. Dedicated to the Queen, the 474-page volume codified Ranji's leg-glance technique, set out the first modern explanation of batting against pace and spin, and remained the definitive cricket coaching book for thirty years. Ranji's ghost-writer was the cricket journalist C.B. Fry.

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Queen Victoria's Accession and the MCC's Loyal Address — June 1837

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1837-06-26

On 20 June 1837 William IV died and Princess Victoria, eighteen, became Queen. Within a week the MCC committee — chaired by William Ward — voted a formal loyal address to the new monarch and dispatched it to St James's Palace. The address, courteously acknowledged from the Queen's secretary, was one of dozens received from sporting and civic bodies but is the formal opening of MCC's relationship with the Victorian monarchy.

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