Beyond The Pavilion spans seventy years of social, regional and cultural
history through the eyes of one of cricket's earliest Test match
wayfarers, Barry Knight. As a ten-year-old, Barry saw Don Bradman's 1948
' Invincibles' at Lord' s. His early days were spent playing street
cricket in London's East End, captaining his school against Eton
College, and later captaining England Schoolboys. At the age of fifteen,
he was recruited to play for Essex and went on to become one of
England's finest all-round cricketers. In this memoir, Barry reflects on
his international playing career and his experiences touring India,
Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand in the 1960s. He recounts tours with
Fred Trueman, Geoff Boycott, Ted Dexter, and Colin Cowdrey and playing
against the era's best Australian, Indian, Pakistani, and West Indian
players. He also shares stories about life in London in the Swinging
Sixties and his place in the D' Oliveira affair, and the anti-apartheid
protests. After his retirement, Barry moved to Australia in the 1970s
and became Australia's first professional cricket coach mentoring and
developing three Test match captains: Allan Border, Mark Taylor and
Steve Waugh.
