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Sex & Drugs & Rebel Tours: David Tossell's latest among new titles from Pitch Publishing

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NEW IN CRICKET BOOKS Tossell turns his attention to England cricket team of the 1980s A new biography of Barry Richards from Andrew Murtagh Dan Whiting's follow-up to Cricket Banter Jon Culley Rarely does a year pass without the name of David Tossell appearing on the shortlist for one of sport's literary prizes. The 53-year-old author and journalist has been nominated five times at the British Sports Book Awards for books on cricket, football and rugby, as well as being on the shortlist twice for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. The Great English Final , which looked at the 1953 FA Cup final, the Matthews final, in the context of Britain's post-War recovery, made the shortlist in the best football book category at the British Sports Book Awards last year. This year he returns to cricket with the publication this week of Sex & Drugs & Rebel Tours: The England Cricket Team in the 1980s . It was a tumultuous decade, one in which Eng