![]() ![]() He had come over from Trinidad to help the legend write his autobiography ‘Cricket and I’, published the following year. CLR James was staying with West Indian all-rounder Learie Constantine in Nelson, Lancashire. Thus ran the account of Barnes bowling for Rawtenstall against Nelson in the Lancashire League. The wicket was slow, but a ball whipped hot from the pitch in the first over, and second slip took a neat catch.” ![]() As he forced himself to the crease you could see every year of his fifty-nine but the arm swung over gallantly, high and straight. You can almost hear the old bones creaking… When every man was placed to the nearest centimetre, Barnes walked back and set the old machinery in motion. Some cricketers at 59 look and move like men in their 30s. “To begin with Barnes is not only 59, but looks it. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at his life and work. CLR James, born January 4, 1901, was a social theorist, Marxist, historian, political activist and also a cricket writer. Beyond A Boundary, written by him from the mid-1950s and published in 1963, is considered a classic of cricket literature. ![]()
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