BACKSPIN was the retro cricket magazine and sister publication to BACKPASS
Publication of BACKSPIN has ceased.
Backspin Issue 12
(Summer 2016) featuring Younis Ahmed, Jack Bannister, Keith Boyce, John Howarth, Sir Len Hutton, Alan Jones, Clive Leach, Peter Lever, Chris Old, the Other Boys of 66, A Strange Way to Die, New Zealand in the West Indies in 1972 and the 1966 season.
Backspin Issue 11
(Winter 2015-16) featuring Ali Bacher, Graham Cowdrey, Roger Finney, Roy Fredericks, Ivan Johnson, Mick Newell, Peter Parfitt, Kevin Sharp, David Steele, Jim Watts, Waqar Younis, the 1961 Aussie tour to the UK, tributes to Brian Close and Tom Graveney, the 1956 season and much more
Backspin Issue 10
(Summer-Autumn 2015) Keith Fletcher, Steve James, Arnie Sidebottom, Curtly Ambrose, Geoff Boycott, Phil DeFreitas, Kevin Emery, Alan Richardson, Peter Smith, Frank Worrell, Blackpool at Lord’s, the King of Spain and the 1967 season.
Backspin Issue 9
(Winter, 2014-15) featuring Colin Cowdrey, Gordon Greenidge, Aftab Baloch, Brian Statham, Jack Birkenshaw, John Derrick, Graham Gooch, Neil Hartley, John Manners, Mike and Derek Taylor, The Oval press box, Lost Grounds of Derbyshire, Andy Moles in Afghanistan and the 1984 season.
Backspin Issue 8
(Autumn, 2014) featuring Pat Pocock, Basher Hassan, Nari Contractor, David Smith, Ian Austin, Jimmy Gray, John Hampshire, Gavin Haynes, Paul Johnson, Paul Newman, EW Swanton, Marcus Trescothick, Made in Huddersfield and the 1978 season
Backspin Issue 7
(Summer, 2014) featuring Viv Richards in the Lancashire League, Andrew Flintoff, Neil Foster, David Gower, Phil Neale, David Allen, Mark Fell, Paul Gibb, Jim Griffiths, John Jameson, Neil Lenham, Rupert Webb, a Twenty20 vision, an Indian summer and the 1968 season.
Backspin Issue 5
(Winter, 2013-14) featuring Ray Illingworth, Colin Cowdrey, Peter Arnold, Trevor Bailey, Mark Benson, Trevor Jesty, David Brown, Mick Hunt, Rick McCosker, Javed Miandad, Wayne Phillips, Clive Radley, John Wood, Ashes Catches, a team made in Reading, the John Player League on BBC2 and the 1983 season.
Backspin Issue 4
(Summer & Autumn, 2013) featuring Colin Milburn, Jack Bond, David Leatherdale, Jeremy Lloyds, Jim Love, Len Pascoe, Roger Tolchard, Don Topley, Kevan James, Kapil Dev, Lawrence Rowe, Joe Partridge, Ray Lindwall in 1948, Gladstone Small in 1986, the 1958-59 Ashes tour, Surrey bowled out for 14 by Essex in 1983, the Minor Counties (East) v Leicestershire in 1978, the Manchester and District Association, Northamptonshire’s class of 1976 and the 1987 season.
Backspin Issue 3
(Spring, 2013) featuring Mike Procter, Glenn Turner, Hugh Morris, Stuart MacGill, Alan Hill, Bryan Richardson, Brian Perry, Tony Shillinglaw, Ian Botham’s 1981 Headingley heroics, Ian Chappell, Stuart Surridge v Adam Hollioake, Yorkshire wicketkeepers over five decades, Denis Compton and Len Hutton in conversation, Rodney Hogg, remembering Frank Keating, Brian Langford and George Chesterton, the Cotswold Cricket Museum, the 1953 Ashes and all the details from the 1953 season.