fully involved again for now but will be on my travels again in May
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My special interest is cricket history, especially the 18th century. I have philately as a second interest and use that as a break from cricket.
My purpose on Wikipedia is to record information that is not easily accessible to the general reader. As well as educating myself, I see my duty as an editor to be provision of a service to the readers. I'm especially interested in ensuring that the articles I work on exist within a structured framework, again for the benefit of the readers, and so I try to ensure that categories are used to best effect as navigable entities. I take a long-term view and think of Wikipedia not just about today but in terms of a shelf life so that it will always be a useful source of reference.
players from 1787 – Captain Charles Cumberland, Mr Assheton Smith, John Pilcher, Butcher, Thomas Ingram, Richard Lawrence, Graham, Thomas Clark, R Denn, C Drummond and JL Kaye
complete 1787 match info
articles for Thomas Boxall, Andrew Freemantle, John Hammond, Thomas Ray, Henry Tufton, John Tufton
expand the tour articles
look at Category:Cricket equipment from a historical angle especially re origins of the bat, ball, wicket, pitch dimensions, pads, etc.
For your contributions to articles on early English cricket Tintin (talk) 06:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
BlackJack is awarded this barnstar for his continued hard work in documenting the obscure parts of cricket. Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 06:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Cricket barnstar
Jack, great work on creating articles for all the English cricket seasons. And thanks for filling in our coverage on historical cricket, where we're often weak. Here's a cricket barnstar for you. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
The Belligerent Gnome Award
I, Dweller, make you the first (and probably only) recipient of the Belligerent Gnome Award for your, erm belligerent gnoming, which irritates some people some of the time, but is exceedingly valuable to the project. Dweller 19:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Blackjack! The face cards (Jack, Queen, and King) count as 10 points, and the Ace counts as 1 or 11.United States Government 1875 reissue of the original 1863 "Black Jack" postage stamp
F S Ashley-Cooper: At the Sign of the Wicket - 1742 to 1751 (Cricket Magazine 1900)
F S Ashley-Cooper: Hambledon Cricket Chronicle
F S Ashley-Cooper: Kent Cricket Matches
G B Buckley: Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket
G B Buckley: Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket
H F & A P Squire: Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket
H T Waghorn: Cricket Scores 1730 – 1773
H T Waghorn: The Dawn of Cricket
John Goulstone: Hambledon - Men and Myths
Peter Wynne-Thomas: Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records
Peter Wynne-Thomas: From the Weald to the World
Playfair Cricket Annual: various issues
Ramachandra Guha: A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British sport * Rowland Bowen: Cricket - A History of its Growth and Development
Samuel Britcher: Scores 1790-1805 (annual issues)
The Cricketer magazine: various issues
Timothy J McCann: Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century
Martin Wilson: Index to Waghorn
Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues
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