The Cricketer is founded by Warner in 1921 (the summer in which England are defeated 3-0 at home to Australia). “The editor believes that there is room for a paper as The Cricketer, which will endeavour to criticise justly and to comment fairly and accurately, not only on first-class cricket, which, after all, is but a small part of our national game, but on club, services, and school cricket as well,” writes Warner in 1921. “The very essence of cricket is camaraderie and good sportsmanship, and the contributors to The Cricketer will strive to write in such a spirit, hoping thereby to spread an even greater love of cricket than exists at present, and, at the same time, to educate the general public in the finer point of the game.” In 1938, a year before World War Two, EW Swanton makes his first contribution – a report of The Oval Test against Australia. His journalism career is put on hold when he finds himself a prisoner of war in camps along the Burma-Siam Railway. The magazine soldiers on during the War, with the editors driving through a Blitz-torn capital on a monthly basis to take the pages to the printers.