Gordon RossCritiques

'From Hambledon to a Hampshire championship' is the title of the article by John Arlott celebrating the first ever County Championship for Hampshire in 1961. What a great team that was, led by Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie. This edition also has information and a photo of the great Australian team that came to England in 1961: Lawry, Simpson, Grout, Burge, O'Neill etc etc.

'Hampshire Champions' is the title of the article on pages 56-57, for only the second time in their history in 1973. Bishen Bedi in his turban appears on the front cover.

This was the first Ashes tour in which I took any interest. We had Australian relatives over around that time and they heightened the fascinatiion of the likes of Harvey, Benaud, Burge, Grout, Davidson, Mackay, Lawry, McKenzie and Simpson.