Abhishek Mukherjee describes how Cardus, who pompously dismissed the scoreboard as an ass, nevertheless made one up as proof of a point he wanted to make .
Read MoreDickie Bird and one of his many stories that seem to be phoney
As per Dickie Bird’s claims, Allan Lamb had carried his mobile phone to the centre at Trent Bridge on June 11, 1990. Abhishek Mukherjee tries to validate whether the statement was true.
Read MoreA random Neville Cardus fabrication
Abhishek Mukherjee writes about Neville Cardus playing God by proxy.
Read MoreNeville Cardus and his date of birth
Neville Cardus, officially born April 2, 1889, revolutionised cricket reporting, transforming it from a staid description of events on the field to a series of metaphors invoking Greek gods and heroes. However, he was also notorious for his refusal to let the facts get in the way of a good story: he frequently wrote supposed “first-hand” reports of matches at which he was not present, and sometimes of ones which never actually took place. Michael Jones discovers that this cavalier disregard for the small matter of truth was exhibited in accounts of his own life as much as in his cricket reports.
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