"Rebels have always been part of English cricket. There were cricketing rebels in the 18th century, and there still and always will be those who protest against one or other of cricket's Laws, against pay and conditions, against the game's governance, and against the presumed rights of Authority.Some were born rebels, others had rebelliousness thrust upon them: some were motivated by principle, others by sheer bloody-mindedness, and still others by a spirit of irreverent deviltry. In telling their stories, some comic, some tragic, [this] also provides an account of the changing social scene out of which different acts of rebellion came"--Publisher's description.