Book Extract: Stars on Sunday by Mark Sands
28.05.26, 09:32 Updated 28.05.26, 09:46
Fred Atkins
The following is an extract from Mark Sands' book Stars on Sunday. You can read an interview with the author here:
1976 delivered a glorious summer, with cricket mostly played out under cloudless skies, across parched outfields, with water rationing and even hosepipe bans in force in some areas. Barry Richards of Hampshire certainly made the most of the warm conditions, completing a record run of consecutive half-centuries. His Sunday best included 97 against Sussex, 101 against Essex (where he reached his century with successive sixes off Acfield) and an unbeaten 95 versus Surrey. He would finish the season breaking his own JPL record for most runs in a season (710), and in so doing passing 4,000 runs in the competition.
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Fred Atkins Fred Atkins is a former Kent Messenger sports editor and has written several books, including The Spitfire Diaries, an account of Kent's 2021 season and Monty Panesar's "The Full Monty". He has followed KCCC since 1993 and has covered them for the ECB and Wisden since 2021.