It takes the average reader 2 hours and 23 minutes to read Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket by Jeremy Lonsdale
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Lord Hawke called Tom Emmett ‘the greatest “character” who ever stepped on to the field’. Born in Halifax in 1841, Emmett worked as a mill hand and did not make his Yorkshire debut until 1866. Almost at once he was part of the most destructive fast bowling partnership in England with George Freeman. In the 1860s, he once took 16 wickets for Yorkshire in an afternoon. In the 1870s, only one other player scored over 4,000 runs and took over 400 wickets in English cricket: W.G.Grace. Emmett had his best ever season with the ball in the 1880s, aged nearly 45. In all first-class cricket, he took...
Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket by Jeremy Lonsdale is 142 pages long, and a total of 35,784 words.
This makes it 48% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket aloud.
Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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