The weather being so suggestive, of an English summer, thoughts
naturally turn to Lord's and Old Trafford and Bramall Lane and the rest. But it is an odd thing that till now, so I am told, no list of first-class and minor county fixtures has been available in any convenient form. This has, very properly, !,vorried the M.C.C., which has grappled with the situation with its usual vigour, and arranged for the publication (by the Naldrett Press, 29 George Street, W.1, at 4s.) of a very neat little green Mary, containing all the information in question and a great deal more that concerns cricketers—meaning by that the connoisseurs in the stands and behind the rails. I hope I may say without offence that I am not at all interested in the fortunes of the Naldrett Press, but very much concerned that readers of this column who stand in need of information about cricket fixtures shall know where to get it your bookseller should have the diary. Here let me digress for a moment—though still on the subject of cricket—to pay in the minimum of words with the maximum of fervour a tribute to the sustained brilliance of the articles of The Times special correspondent with the M.C.C. team in Australia. If there has ever been better cricket reporting in the past it was before my time. If there is ever better cricket reporting in the future it will. I predict, be after my time.
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