Cricket Lovely Cricket

Author : Lawrence Booth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781448103034

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Cricket, Lovely Cricket? by Lawrence Booth Pdf

Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What is the secret of sledging? Why get so worked up about the Ashes? Why all the clichés? And how did India take over the world? Taking the reader to the heart of a game that seems more capable than any other of bewitching its followers, this is a captivating look at the way cricket has become what it is today - and what, given a fair wind, it might be like in the future.

Author : Vijay P. Kumar,Brian Lara,Courtenay Walsh,Clyde Walcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 0615113966

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Cricket Lovely Cricket by Vijay P. Kumar,Brian Lara,Courtenay Walsh,Clyde Walcott Pdf

Author : John Duncan
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843584650

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Cricket, Wonderful Cricket by John Duncan Pdf

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 : Mr Jack Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136317200

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Cricket and England by Mr Jack Williams Pdf

Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494588

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Cricket, Public Culture and Postcolonial Society in India by Souvik Naha Pdf

This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.

Author : Hilary Beckles,Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 0719043158

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Liberation Cricket by Hilary Beckles,Brian Stoddart Pdf

Of the global community of cricketers, the West Indians are, arguably, the most well-known and feared. This book shows how this tradition of cricketing excellence and leadership emerged, and how it contributed to the rise of West Indian nationalism and independence.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0745314724

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The Development of West Indies Cricket, Vol. 1 by Hilary Beckles Pdf

This volume covers the "third rising" of West Indies cricket. As the sport becomes ever more commercialized, large amounts of money have established sponsorship & support systems to give cricketers around the world every possible advantage. Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, & the effect this has had on the game, & the prospect for integrating West Indian nationhood in the twenty-first century.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0745314627

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The Development of West Indies Cricket, Vol. 2 by Hilary Beckles Pdf

This volume covers the "third rising" of West Indies cricket. As the sport becomes ever more commercialized, large amounts of money have established sponsorship & support systems to give cricketers around the world every possible advantage. Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, & the effect this has had on the game, & the prospect for integrating West Indian nationhood in the twenty-first century.

Author : Keith A. P. Sandiford
Publisher : Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9766400466

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Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados by Keith A. P. Sandiford Pdf

This work offers an intriguing and important analysis of the role played by three prestigious grammar schools - Combermere School, Harrison College and the Loge School- in establishing the cricket cult in Barbados and ultimately throughout the Caribbean. It goes far towards explaining why Barbadians have traditionally played such excellent cricket. This book is the first to make such extensive use of Barbadian school magazines as primary sources for the study of social history. The author stresses the statistical first class records of about 200 alumni of the three schools and in so doing furnishes sport sociologists with a considerable new body of empirical data for future use. Although it focuses on a Barbadian situation, the book should interest cricket enthusiasts everywhere with its many photographs and its lucid and candid treatment of some of the most important personalities in regional and world cricket, a few of whom are still actively involved in the sport today.

Author : Stephen Fay,David Kynaston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408895399

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Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket by Stephen Fay,David Kynaston Pdf

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 'Beautifully written, meticulously researched and stuffed with rich sporting and social history ... Unputdownable' Mail on Sunday After the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton transformed the broadcasting of the nation's summer game into a national institution. Arlott and Swanton typified the contrasting aspects of post-war Britain. Because of their strong personalities and distinctive voices – Swanton's crisp and upper-class, Arlott's with its Hampshire burr – each had a loyal following. As England moved from a class-based to a more egalitarian society, nothing stayed the same – including professional cricket. Wise, lively and filled with rich social and sporting history, Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket shows how, as the game entered a new era, these two very different men battled to save the soul of the game. _______________________ 'Magnificent ... One of the best cricket books I've read in years: it makes long-forgotten matches live and breathe as though they were played yesterday' Daily Mail, Books of the Year 'A triumph ... [Kynaston and Fay] both have inside-outside sensitivities that keep this near-seamless collaboration shrewd, worldly, balanced and fresh' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Dan Waddell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781448142941

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The Test Match Special Book of Cricket Quotes by Dan Waddell Pdf

Collecting hundreds of quips and quotes, and beautifully illustrated throughout, The Test Match Special Book of Cricket Quotes is a cricket fan’s indispensable guide to bats, beards, boundaries and bowls. From witty sayings and wise words, to doubles entendres, and legendary moments from cricketing history, you’ll find the perfect line for every occasion. ‘I've never got to the bottom of streaking’- Jonathan Agnew ‘On the first day Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off' - Trevor Bailey ‘Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator’- John Arlott 'Strangely, in slow motion, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer' - David Acfield 'I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP' - James Anderson 'How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?' - Rafa Benitez on test cricket ‘I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke’ - Craig Matthews ‘Flintoff starts in, his shadow beside him. Where else would it be?’- Henry Blofeld ‘I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide’ - Lewis Carroll

Author : Stephen Musk
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781905138883

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Michael Falcon: Norfolk’s Gentleman Cricketer by Stephen Musk Pdf

Michael Falcon (1888-1976) was educated at Harrow and Cambridge and proved himself to be a good enough fast bowler to be selected fourteen times for the Gentlemen. He declined to qualify by residence to play for Middlesex, preferring instead to play for his beloved Norfolk in the Minor Counties Championship. In this competition his exploits as a hard-hitting, fast-bowling all-rounder made him a dominant figure in Norfolk elevens. Appointed captain in 1912, he was still in office in 1946; he was the only man to skipper his county before the First World War and after the Second. An astute and popular leader, he was worth his place in the team to the end, finishing top of the batting averages in his final season, when aged 58. Thought of highly enough by the authorities to be co-opted on to the MCC Committee at the early age of 26, he was the only bowler of genuine pace to sit on the sub-committee which ruled on bodyline. He is most famous for the part he played in helping Archie MacLaren’s eleven to defeat Warwick Armstrong’s previously invincible 1921 tourists. Informed opinion suggests that his refusal to play for Middlesex cost him the chance to play Test cricket, but his loyalty to Norfolk was paramount and he never expressed any regrets. As a Tory M.P. and a landowning grandee, one might expect him to have been a somewhat remote and forbidding character, but he was a quiet and modest man with a love of the game which gave him a bond with the common cricketer. On one occasion he was more than ready to lead a singalong with the players of a village cricket club. Stephen Musk tells a story of privilege, public service and the pastime of cricket.

Author : John Major
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780007280117

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More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years by John Major Pdf

The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game’s social origins.

Author : David Frith
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781311936

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Bodyline Autopsy by David Frith Pdf

In 1932, England’s cricket team, led by the haughty Douglas Jardine, had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen: the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused an outrage that reverberated to the back of the stands and into the highest levels of government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known, was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers. It was also potentially lethal – one bowl fracturing the skull of Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield – and the technique was outlawed in 1934. After the death of Don Bradman in 2001, one of the most controversial events in cricketing history – the Bodyline technique - finally slid out of living memory. Over seventy years on, the 1932-33 Ashes series remains the most notorious in the history of Test cricket between Australia and England. David Frith’s gripping narrative has been acclaimed as the definitive book on the whole saga: superbly researched and replete with anecdotes, Bodyline Autopsy is a masterly anatomy of one of the most remarkable sporting scandals.

Author : Richard H. Thomas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781789143720

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Cricketing Lives by Richard H. Thomas Pdf

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.