New cricketing book pays tribute to the late Dickie Dodds

A new book, A Long Half Hour, by Stephen Chalke, (Fairfield Books, 2010) profiles six famous cricketing sportsman including the late T C 'Dickie' Dodds. In a review on the website www.cricketweb.net , Martin Chandler writes:

'The penultimate essay is about Dickie Dodds - a true entertainer. He was an opening batsman for Essex who put bat to ball from the opening delivery of an innings. His life was defined by the Moral Rearmament movement, now known as Initiatives of Change, an organisation of which West Indian opening batsmen Conrad Hunte was also a member. Chalke gives us a glimpse of a remarkable life that was underpinned by an admirable, if in many ways rather eccentric, set of values.'

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