Daniel Norcross
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1,852 appearances
19 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Aug
Daniel Norcross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if so, why do you think it's cricket that's done this?
I mean, I think it definitely is true.
I'm obviously biased, but I've read more cricket books than I have about other sport.
But, you know, tennis has this great sort of literary heritage.
If you speak to a lot of tennis writers, they would probably say that tennis is... I actually read a tennis book called Levels of the Game, which is a famous tennis book which takes a match between Arthur Ashe and another tennis player.
I can't remember, but it's almost point by point, and then it goes off into their...
autobiographies and their stories and how they reach the point to come to this match and I thought that was actually a great idea for a cricket book you take an inning and say Joe Root when he takes on Sachin Tendulkar or whatever and it's his innings but you weave in his story and obviously there's the literary heritage and then there's the autobiographies the straight up player ones when they finish but I think because cricket is
It has that tradition of, it goes right back, so it spans a whole lot of eras of social history as much as anything.
It takes in the wars, and you can learn so much about life from cricket.
So there's so many parallels.
It's a game of failure, so someone like me who sort of leans onto that melancholy side of things, a cricket book is always good to dip into because it sort of teaches you about life, I think.
One of the great books I've read recently is by David Woodhouse about the 1953-54 tour of the West Indies.
And you think to yourself, is this going to be a bit dry?
Well, not a bit of it.
So you've got riots going on.
You've got countries seeking independence.
You've got the England team wandering around completely naively, having no idea really how to behave.
You've got perceived insults left, right and centre.
And in the midst of it all, you've got this gripping series of...
which finishes 2-2 and so when you're reading it it's like a multi-stranded whodunit really because you're not it's like I wasn't totally familiar with the 53-54 tour so it's like a gripping story that you don't really know the end of and yet you're transported a bit like reading a bit of Agatha Christie you know you're sent right back in time to the 30s and 40s with that in mind what's the one that really gets you what are the ones about older tours because that's a sort of category of book isn't it
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