Reviews of "Stars on Sunday"
"Mark's book is a work of art and brings back so many memories for me as a youngster growing up and loving the game"
Dave Swanton, Lancashire Evening Post
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“Stars on Sunday is certainly not a dry history and I am certain that everyone to whom the John Player League meant anything will thoroughly enjoy it. But the book is more than an entertaining look back at a long gone competition. It is a valuable social history as well, and a demonstration of how cricket, albeit rather later than it might have, did manage to climb out of those doldrums it found itself in in the sixties. There are also some interesting parallels, as well as some stark differences, in the issues English domestic cricket faces today”
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"a superb book all about the much-missed John Player League, a must buy!."
Daren Mootoo, 98 Not Out Podcast
"each chapter gambols along at a fair pace, [with] interesting stories and interludes that provide substantial context"
Yahoo over Cow Corner
"there is a joy in reliving the exploits of great players like Botham and Boycott...ready to duke it out for crowds just delighted to have something to do on the Sabbath in 1970s Britain"
Jon Hotten, Wisden Cricket Monthly
"a really evocative record of a wonderful era for county cricket"
David Griffin, Derbyshire CCC Historian and Official Photographer
"the legend of Darley Dale given a write-up that does it justice, 1978 the brilliance of Gordon Greenidge after the departure of Barry Richards, and 1986, Cardigan Connor’s decisive over at the Oval is written about in detail."
By The Sightscreen blog
"In a fantastic new book covering every season between 1969 and 1986, Mark Sands looks at what made that competition so special"
Hampshire Cricket Heritage