Cricket history is one of my interests.  I'm currently writing a book on the England vs West Indies test series of 1933 and the return series in the West Indies in 1935. Doing this I spent some time going through the MCC archives where I came across correspondence on negotiations between the West Indies Board of Control and their three star players: Learie Constantine, George Headley and Manny Martindale over contracts for the 1939 tour of England. I thought it was interesting stuff but didn't fit in with the book, so instead it became an article that got published in the Nightwatchman cricket quarterly.  Now I have a blog it is reproduced below. Six hundred pounds, plus expenses Test cricket between the two World Wars seems very far away. Norman Gordon of South Africa died in 2014 and there is no - one left alive who played international cricket before World War II.  All we are left with is flickering fragments of Test matches on film.  Yet during the...