<P><B><I>''Is there anything in sport to compare with the sustained excitement of a cricket match, especially a Test match, in which the advantage continually fluctuates one way and then the other, and when the match enters its last few minutes, all four results are still possible?''</I></B><br><br>After entertaining countless radio listeners around the world for decades, who better to convey the breathless drama of a Test match cliffhanger than Henry Blofeld? Now, in <I>Ten to Win . . . and the Last Man In</I>, he has personally selected thirty matches featuring unforgettable finishes and brought them vividly to life again in his own inimitable way.<br><br>Ranging from the match-winning bowling of F.R. Spofforth against W.G. Grace''s England in 1882, via the first tied Test between Benaud''s Australia and Worrell''s West Indies in 1960, to the never-say-die batting of Ben Stokes in 2019, he picks out the key events and performances of each memorable match and describes them as only he
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A funny and entertaining guide to cricket from iconic cricket character, Henry Blofeld.
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