‘How Great War affected cricket’

A LUNCHTIME talk about cricket and the First World War is to take place at Leeds Central Library.

Drawing on research for his book A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War 1914-20, Jeremy Lonsdale will talk on Thursday November 28 at 1pm.

It is about what happened to cricket at all levels in Yorkshire between 1914 and 1918; how it kept going with so many men away; how its top league managed to attract a number of famous cricketers to play at weekends; and how, when peace came, cricket resumed its place in county life in 1919 and 1920.

Organisers say it is a story of divided opinions and of guilt and uncertainty about the correct way to behave.