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Author : Zeeshan Mahmud
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312167490
Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 9781863953108
The game we play today is scarcely like that of my boyhood ' mused Dr W.G. Grace a century ago. 'There have been silent revolutions transforming cricket in many directions, improving it in some ways and in others robbing it of some elements of its charm.' In this panoramic collection of his writings, Australia's leading cricket writer ranges over 250 years of cricket history, picking out those events, characters and even objects that have mattered - sometimes far more than we know. From giants of the game such as Bradman, Larwood and Miller to subjects including our fascination with wasted talent and the evolution of the protector, Silent Revolutionsreveals the game within the game known only to the subtlest observers.
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781509841400
A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.
Author : Sujit Mukherjee
Publisher : UN
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015052310557
An Indian Cricket Century Is A Collection Of The Best Essays Written By Dr Sujit Mukherjee, Over Four Decades. The Essays Range From Portraits Of Great Cricketers Like Vijay Merchant And Sunil Gavaskar To Wonderfully Witty Recollections Of Cricket As Played In Locations Like Patna And Philadelphia. This Book, In Sum, Presents The Distilled Reflections On Our National Obsession Of Our Finest Writer On The Sport.
Author : C.L.R James
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1781312761
C.L.R. James is the author of unquestionably the best book ever written about cricket: "Beyond a Boundary" - indeed, one of the finest books written about sport, period. In print ever since its publication in 1963, it has just been reissued again by Yellow Jersey. But James wrote about cricket all his life, though he only ever published one other book on the game, and this is it. Originally published by Allison and Busby, and out of print for the last ten years, it is now republished as part of Aurum's highest-quality cricket list, under a new title and with a striking cover tied in with the cover design of "Beyond a Boundary". "A Majestic Innings" collects together appreciations of great cricketers from Bradman to Botham, Dexter to David Gower, pieces on cricket controversies like the Bodyline series and the D'Oliviera affair, letters to friends like John Arlott and V.S. Naipaul, and above all writings on James's first love, West Indies cricket - on Gary Sobers, Sir Frank Worrell, Learie Constantine, and even the early promise of a young Guyanian called Clive Lloyd. Aurum's cricket list already published almost all the finest writers on the game: Derek Birley, Gideon Haigh, David Frith, David Rayvern Allen - and now it has added C.L.R. James.
Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781471132797
For all the glamour and new-found wealth that has come to cricket thanks to the IPL, the sport has rarely faced such an uncertain future. The gold standard of cricket - Test matches - is being sidelined in some countries by the shorter forms of the game. While the sport is being transformed, administrators are struggling to keep pace with it all. Yet, despite all of this, the sport's essential elements remain in place: great games are played, new stars rise up and old stars step back and retire. In this new collection of writing, Gideon Haigh takes the pulse of the game today, and in particular looks at the decline of the sport in Australia, where the once all-conquering men in the 'baggy green' suddenly found themselves struggling to impose themselves on their opponents.
Author : R K Laxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351181576
R.K. Laxman, India'S Best-Loved Cartoonist, Is Also One Of Our Most Gifted Storytellers. The Same Acerbic Wit And Quizzical Insights That Characterize His Cartoons Are In Ample Evidence In His Writings As Well. This Ominous Volume Contains His Two Novels, The Hotel Riviera And The Messenger, And The Tunnel Of Time, His Autobiography.
Author : Nick Greenslade
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785317446
The Thin White Line: The Inside Story of Cricket's Greatest Scandal tells the story of the spot-fixing scandal of 2010, which sent shockwaves through the sport. It stunned the wider sporting world and confirmed the reputation of the News of the World's Mazher Mahmood as the most controversial news reporter of his generation. It was the start of a stunning chain of events that saw the News of the World shut down, Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir banned and sent to prison, before Mahmood himself ended up behind bars. This gripping, forensic account takes the reader through the twists and turns of those fateful days late one August and beyond. For the first time, it shines a light on the tradecraft of the News of the World team and how they exposed the criminal scheming of the cricketers and their fixer Mazhar Majeed. It reveals how deeply fixing had penetrated the Pakistan dressing room, and lifts the lid on the black arts of investigative reporting which would eventually prove Mahmood's undoing.
Author : Daniel Melamud
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780847868575
Winner of the WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR award and the TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR, this book is a celebration of the elegance and timeless beauty of cricket—its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today’s stars, along with its idyllic and hallowed grounds. Cricket has been played for over three hundred years and in some ways remains largely unchanged. It is this timelessness, and the style and spirit in which the game is conducted, which is celebrated in This Is Cricket. The book brings together such idyllic settings as Sir Paul Getty's Ground in Buckinghamshire, U.K., surrounded by rolling countryside, with the Otago cricket ground in New Zealand set against a backdrop of mountains, as well as the sport's most hallowed pitches, including Lord's (opened by Thomas Lord in 1814) and Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted the first-ever International "Test" match in 1877. Readers will venture on a journey to the Caribbean, where the fast bowling attack of the West Indies reigned in the 1970s, and to India, where cricket soared to new heights in the 1980s. From Shane Warne's hat-trick at the MCG in 1994 to Ben Stokes's heroics at Lord's and Headingley in 2019, This Is Cricket captures many of the game's most extraordinary events and players. The striking images of on-field action as well as candid dressing-room moments, some published here for the first time, are taken by some of the most respected photographers in sport. Featuring bucolic village greens, charming pavilions, endearing team portraits, extraordinary catches, devastating bowling, heroic batting, stylish sweaters, and silly fancy dress, this book illustrates why cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and why it is truly loved by so many.
Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780857209009
'Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?' In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How did India come to run world cricket? How did clubs owned by billionaires and Bollywood stars begin to shove international competition aside? How did money unite players and divide administrators, amid allegations of massive corruption? Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer's 'World Series' from the beginning: Sphere of Influenceis the result. This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp and disturbing focus.
Author : Richard H. Thomas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781789143720
As famous for its complicated rules as it is for its contentious (and lengthy) matches, cricket is the quintessentially English sport. Or is it? From cricket in literature to sticky wickets, Cricketing Lives is a paean to the quirky characters and global phenomenon that are cricket. Cricket is defined by the characters who have played it, watched it, reported it, ruled upon it, ruined it, and rejoiced in it. Humorous and deeply affectionate, Cricketing Lives tells the story of the world’s greatest and most incomprehensible game through those who have shaped it, from the rustic contests of eighteenth-century England to the spectacle of the Indian Premier League. It’s about W. G. Grace and his eye to his wallet; the invincible Viv Richards; and Sarah Taylor, “the best wicketkeeper in the world.” Richard H. Thomas steers a course through the despair of war, tactical controversies, and internecine politics, to reveal how cricket has always warmed our hearts as nothing else can.
Author : John Duncan
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843584650
Remarkable cricket by remarkable people, from Rory Bremner to the Duke of Edinburgh.Boundaries, maidens, Botham and Bell; centuries, ducks, Lara and Laker...in this amazing collection of interviews, John Duncan explores the idiosyncratic, historical and entertaining game of cricket through people who share a true passion for the sport. Drawing upon various cricketing memories of some of the most respected names in British culture, busines and politics -- including Michael Parkinson, Sir Tim Rice and the Duke of Edinburgh -- and covering a variety of topics such as classic matches and personal cricketing heroes, Cricket Wonderful Cricket is an entertaining and unique insight into the eccentric and indeed wonderful game of cricket.
Author : Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444769623
Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that is happening in the cricket world, while at the same time taking the opportunity to reflect, in the company of old friends and acquaintances, on his own colourful contribution to the sport that lasted for over half a century. Dickie remains the most famous umpire of them all and is still highly respected throughout the world. A lovable eccentric with a joyful sense of fun, he decided, as he approached his eightieth birthday, to recall the highlights of his life in cricket, while also providing an illuminating insight into what he has been up to since his retirement.
Author : Chris Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 1903158192
Author : R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cricket
ISBN : OCLC:1368178185
