Frank Tyson

Frank Tyson (6 June 1930 – 27 September 2015) was an England international cricketer in the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach, and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed ‘Typhoon Tyson’ by the press, he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket.

Frank Tyson reviews 'The Immortal Victor Trumper' by J.H. Fingleton

May 1979, no. 10 • 01 May 1979

One of the joys of reading Jack Fingleton on cricket is that the personality of the author illuminates every page. It is not merely that Fingleton’s style is the man himself; his work transcends a Parnassian obsession with manner of expression. Just as one expects existentialism in every scene of a Sartre play and Shavian philosophy in every line of a Shaw prologue, the reader would be disappoin ... (read more)