For Cricket Lovers ..!

Hi ! In todays's Post I have special information for Cricket fans. A Guide has been recently issued on Cricket stamps and covers. I am giving here its cover page and other details are given below. Some more nice items sent by our distinguished member Mr. Pradip Jain from Patna. These are Australia Cricket - Prestige Booklet and MCC Cricket Cover. I hope this information will be quite useful for those collecting on Sports theme as well as by all the lovers of Cricket. No doubt Cricket has become one of the most popular games these days and it's a passion for Indians. Those who are not philatelists would love to collect these items. Well this is all for Today !.....Till Next Post Have a wonderful Time !


Guide to collecting Cricket Memorabilia

In association with Stamp and Coin Mart, Chapman and Mitchell Covers have released a guide to collecting cricket stamps and covers. Contributorsinclude Tom Graveney, John Jameson and Cricket Philatelic Society PresidentArthur Melville-Brown. India's leading cricket historian, Dr Boria Majumdaralso contributed a piece on the India's rise to cricket prominence. Thecontent and layout makes it a good read for collector and cricket fan alike.The guide was launched at Stampex, the national stamp show, on February25th. A special display of cricket memorabilia was mounted at the show withthe MCC. This ranged from the bat W G Grace used to score his 1000th Testrun to Indian Premier League kit donated and signed by Rahul Dravid andSourav Ganguly. The bat will be auctioned at Sotheby's in May and the IPLkit will form part of the "Going to the Cricket" exhibition at the MCC museum.

The 32 page guide, also titled "Going to the Cricket", is available from the MCC section of the web site at www.bletchleycovers.com It will also be on sale from the MCC Museum.For More details contact: Terry Mitchell 00 44 (0) 1604 781440

Australia Cricket - Prestige Booklet

A special booklet presenting all the stamps issued by Australia on Cricket theme and stories behind them.


MCC Cricket Cover

The cover jointly issued by MCC and Cricket Association of Bengal on 5 January 2009

For more details about these covers contact Mr. Pradip Jain E-Mail philapradip@gmail.com
Ph. 91-612-2215929 Mob 09334132162