Daniel Norcross
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1,852 appearances
19 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Aug
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I mean, is that partly why cricket lends itself to this kind of writing?
I think so, yeah.
It teaches you historical things, but it also teaches you, to go back to it, it teaches you about life and friendships and how to just get on and how those books sort of tap into something that you perhaps might not have even thought of.
I remember it was my first tour of Australia and I hadn't thought of what it would be like to get a...
however long it took on a boat to go over there and they entertain themselves by playing deck quits and all this sort of stuff.
It seems very, I mean, completely different to what it's like these days when you get on an aeroplane and you can be in that country the next day.
So that was definitely part of it.
It was part of the touring side of it.
They were away for an awful long time and they had to... Well, WG Grace was on, right?
In those early days, he would almost make a profit out of the tours, but he'd be the only one that's making any money out of those tours.
Massive profits, yeah.
Of course, the tour book has declined since TV coverage came in.
In the old days, you needed the tour books written by either journalists or players to tell you what had actually happened in Australia because you couldn't see it.
But obviously now, since 1990, we've had ball by ball live coverage on TV of...
The tour books are now, well, there aren't any really, are there?
And the tour's not as long.
No.
And there's not as much variety.
I mean, you know, the players stayed in the hotel for another week.
I know they also went to Noosa, but, you know.
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