Three times an Ashes winner, Trevor Bailey is regarded along with Ian Botham as England's premier all-rounder since the Second World War. He was a schoolboy prodigy at Dulwich College and won cricket and soccer blues at Cambridge University and an FA Amateur Cup winners' medal with Walthamstow in 1951/2. At the heart of the story is the fighting spirit of a loyalist who served England - and his home county Essex - so well in a crisis. Bailey played in 61 Tests in which he became only the second Englishman to score 2000 runs and take 100 wickets. After retirement from first-class cricket, he became a broadcaster on the BBC's Test Match Special programme. Biography is fully endorsed and supported by the family of the late Trevor Bailey Comprehensive colour photo section, including previously unpublished pictures from the Bailey family's personal collection Foreword by Doug Insole, a close friend and colleague of Bailey since their days together at Cambridge University, and later a top cricket administrator The author is the critically acclaimed Alan Hill, a close friend of Bailey and twice the winner of the prestigious Cricket Society Literary Award for his biographies of fellow Yorkshiremen Hedley Verity and Herbert Sutcliffe.