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5th Test, Day 2: After his bowling exploits, Bailey acts as makeshift opener, taking over after over of the rapid Frank King while "Len smiled approvingly at me from the other end". He eventually provided Sobers with his first Test wicket. Close: Eng 194-5 (Hutton 93*), 55 ahead

5th Test, Day 3. Hutton plays his last great Test innings, a 9-hour double century compiled in intense heat. But he unintentionally causes another diplomatic incident, after walking off the field at tea, by ignoring a dignitary's outstretched hand. Close WI 20-0, 255 behind.

Fifth Test, Day 4: Hutton's handshake with Bustamante at an evening function fails to close down the rumpus in the local press, while Walcott's stern resistance on the field keeps the Test alive. Close of play: West Indies 184-4, 91 behind

England beat WI by 9 wickets to complete an unprecedented comeback from 0-2 down to 2-2. Bailey and Trueman made big contributions but, as they took the banana boat home, they were probably not fully aware of the shadows the Lord's mandarins would try to cast over their careers.

A pleasure to give the talk at the tenth Cardus Archive Lunch in the Long Room at Old Trafford this week. You can find out more about the important work of the Archive here: max-books.co.uk/neville-cardus… and Martin Chandler's review of their bibliography here cricketweb.net/books/cardus-b…

Includes the third in 'The Story of Cricket in 50 Books' series, on Playing Away by Caryl Phillips

Monumental effort from the Worcestershire CCC boys at Kent over the last couple of days given everything that’s happened. They really are a special group of men. #JB33 💚

Includes my bit on John Nyren: 'If the Hambledon era represented what The Cricketers of My Time calls a "total revolution" in cricket technique, the book began a revolution in cricket writing because of its sense of occasion, character, period and place'

Includes Poet Laureate and Nobel Laureate XIs to play Mars, along with a Playwright XI: Barrie, Travers, Sherriff, Rattigan, Harwood, Gray, Stoppard, Ayckbourn, Brenton, Hare, Bean (Beckett and Pinter unavailable as playing for Nobel XI)

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j… Check out my BBC World Service show about Frank #Worrell WI's first permanent Black captain Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent MBE - #Worrell changed her life +Sir Charlie Griffith - off his long run +Cammie Smith - oldest living WI player +Vaneisa Baksh - #Worrell biographer

No better prelude to the #ENGvWI series than ListerProd's eloquent and moving tribute to Sir Frank Worrell at last night's The Cricket Society dinner - Simon was joined by guest of honour Clem Seecharan for the Q and A

ICYMI: daniel norcross and David Woodhouse discussed the multi award-winning WOCK (Who Only Cricket Know) and the tumultuous and gripping 1953/54 series during the Trent Bridge Test Find the chat at 5.43.10 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Tune in August 1st for our episode with Colin Babb about his fantastic book on the complex cultural world of Cricket. This was an extremely interesting conversation that took us in a lot of directions and I found out Alex knows way more about sports than I thought. Buy the book

Happy birthday Sir Frank. As ListerProd points out in the BBC Radio 4 Today piece, the first sportsman to receive a memorial service in Westminster Abbey - and also the first to bring so many well-wishers onto the streets of Melbourne as the first tenured black captain of West Indies.

Many thanks to Alan Rees for his recent invaluable help, pointing me to an important file in the MCC Archive for a piece in The Cricketer on George Headley, and to the gems on leg-spin in the MCC Library for a 50 Books article on CS Marriott Wisden

I hope I haven't been too harsh on Kilburn for trying to out-Cardus Cardus in this book but, reading it again for County Cricket Matters, I'd forgotten quite how "literary" he is trying to be in many of the essays: there is not so much of the economical prose of his maturity

Most neutrals wanted Somerset to win the #CountyChamp, but hats off to Surrey for 3 in a row. Good to see the ECB highlighting the closing stages of its most storied competition rather than arranging some meaningless international games to clash with it as well as Blast ... oh

Wednesday November 20 is the West of England Cricket Society cricket book day at Lansdown CC, Bath, including Fairfield Books founder Stephen Chalke interviewing Simon Lister, Stephen Brenkley and David Woodhouse. Email [email protected] for full info and lunch menu.

My bit this time in the "50 Books" column covers PG Wodehouse, Hornung's Raffles and the Waugh brothers (Alec and Evelyn not Mark and Steve), coincidentally discussed by Eric Midwinter in the latest Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians Cricket Statistician also just out

Looking forward to Cricket Across Dark Waters, out early next year, on the Tests and ties between West Indies and India