Colin Blythe

Colin Blythe, voted by former England spinner Phil Edmonds as one of the country's top 100 bowlers, was a giant in the golden age of county cricket before WWI. This is the first biography of a complex personality who was one of the first cricketers to challenge the game's rulers, demanding to handle his own financial affairs rather than leave it to the Kent County committee. But although Blythe was unquestionably one of the great slow left arm bowlers of his day, nervous tension that might have been caused by epilepsy brought an early end to his international career.