Author : John Arlott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 1850520763
My Favourite Cricket Stories
John Arlott
My Favourite Cricket Stories
My Favourite Cricket Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of My Favourite Cricket Stories book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories
Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird
Author : Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444769623
80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories by Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird Pdf
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.
Beefy's Cricket Tales
Ian Botham
Author : Ian Botham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849838023
Beefy's Cricket Tales by Ian Botham Pdf
Life is very rarely dull or quiet when Sir Ian Botham is around. One of Britain's greatest sportsmen, 'Beefy' has always worked hard and played hard, and this book reflects that. Botham has compiled some of his favourite stories from a life devoted to cricket and brought them all together in one volume. With the help of his huge network of friends, colleagues, team-mates and opponents, he has put together a wonderful collection of the best and the funniest stories from the cricket world. Featuring contributions from legends such as Shane Warne, fellow commentators and former team-mates including David Gower, and many of the current England team, this is a book the reader can pick up and immediately be privy to some of cricket's strangest and most hilarious moments, from the player who turned up to a game without any clothes on to avoid being fined for wearing the wrong kit to the cricketing legend whose desire for a burger landed him in hot water.
80 Not Out
Dickie Bird
Author : Dickie Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 144479843X
80 Not Out by Dickie Bird Pdf
My Favourite Village Stories
Ronald Blythe
Author : Ronald Blythe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Country life
ISBN : UCAL:B3191487
My Favourite Village Stories by Ronald Blythe Pdf
From the My Favourite series - favourite stories on different themes by different authors, each volume edited by a celebrity in the field. "Villages are all stories, of course" writes Ronald Blythe, introducing this selection of his favourites. In any village, where past and present interleave, stories emerge, coloured by landscape and weather, and shaped by the villagers' lives. For villages are made up of people, from the families who have lived there for generations to the gypsies camping in the lane. Here are Hardy's villagers whose simple compassion cannot avert a neighbour's tragedy; Lawrence's men and women trapped in a small community and set on edge by the unfailing brilliance of a new spring; George Mackay Brown's shepherds and tinkers whose story is as bleak and terse as a ballad. Here is a squire puffed up with self-importance, a gamekeeper calm with self-respect, a priest with the strength of a stevedore, a blacksmith who put his faith in the old ways, a policeman full of malice, a delectable doctor. A child is made welcome at farmhouse tea, with pikelets and plum cake, home-cured ham and sherry trifle - village life at its most comfortable and reassuring. But an old woman in the raw poverty of Dulditch would sooner be robbed by her own kin than be carried to the workhouse. There is humour in this collection, and poetry, and drama, for village stories are as individual as the people who make them.
My Favourite Cricketer
John Stern
Author : John Stern
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408131855
My Favourite Cricketer by John Stern Pdf
My Favourite Cricketer features a selection of the finest writing taken from The Wisden Cricketer magazine. Top-quality sports writers and celebrated cricket fans fondly recall their most admired player past or present, and explain their choice of cricketing hero. The player selection ranges from the obvious choices - such as Trueman, Atherton, Gough, Tendulkar and Sobers - to the more intriguing or humble. Contributors including Gideon Haigh, Duncan Hamilton, Sid Waddell, Stephen Tompkinson and CMJ all present the case for their favourite cricketer and explain just what it is that makes them so special. Each piece is accompanied by stunning full-colour photography of the player in action. My Favourite Cricketer shows the breadth of cricket's enduring appeal and presents a record of the most cherished and larger-than-life characters.
Beefy's Cricket Tales
Ian Botham
Author : Ian Botham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849838016
Beefy's Cricket Tales by Ian Botham Pdf
Life is very rarely dull or quiet when Sir Ian Botham is around. One of Britain's greatest sportsmen, 'Beefy' has always worked hard and played hard, and this book reflects that. With the help of his huge network of friends, colleagues, team-mates and opponents, he has put together a collection of the best and the funniest stories from the cricket world.
Tuffers' Twitter Tales: The Best Cricket Stories From Tuffers' Twitter Followers
Phil Tufnell
Author : Phil Tufnell
Publisher : Headline
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780755364930
Tuffers' Twitter Tales: The Best Cricket Stories From Tuffers' Twitter Followers by Phil Tufnell Pdf
In this exclusive ebook-only edition, Phil Tufnell, aka 'Tuffers', the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tuffers' Cricket Tales, shares a selection of the most outrageous and hilarious cricket stories he has received from his Twitter followers.
Cricket, Literature and Culture
Anthony Bateman
Author : Anthony Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317158059
Cricket, Literature and Culture by Anthony Bateman Pdf
In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Mind The Windows: Tino Best - My Story
Tino Best
Author : Tino Best
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786061775
Mind The Windows: Tino Best - My Story by Tino Best Pdf
Fiery West Indian cricketer Tino Best lives life in the fast lane – on and off the pitch. He was one of the quickest bowlers ever to have played the game, consistently exceeding 90mph in an eleven-year international career in which he roughed up – and got out – the best in the business. And if he played hard on the pitch, he played just as hard off it, living the playboy lifestyle with girls across the globe. In the middle, Best was never short of a word or two. He took his first Test wicket after giving Graham Thorpe an earful, he went nose-to-nose with Pakistan star Shoaib Malik in one heated exchange and later had to be separated from Kieron Pollard during one pugnacious argument in a hotel lift. Not content with his aggressive bowling, Best even dished out the verbals while batting: sledging the English bowlers during his record-breaking innings for a number 11 of 95 at Edgbaston. He reveals all about his career, including his fierce battle with Sachin Tendulkar in the Indian great's last ever Test, the dressing-room problems damaging the West Indies and his antics in the bedroom. Mind the Windows includes a foreword from Andrew Flintoff, the man who famously sledged him, while celebrity cricket fan Piers Morgan, legendary umpire Dickie Bird and former international captains Adam Hollioake and Darren Sammy have all written tributes.
Sport, Culture and History
Brian Stoddart
Author : Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317997023
Sport, Culture and History by Brian Stoddart Pdf
In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon his own training in Asian studies. His work has been characterised by cross-disciplinary work from the outset, and has encompassed some very different geographical areas as well as crossing from academic outlets to media commentary. As a result, his influential work has appeared in many different locations, and it has been difficult for a wide variety of readers to access it fully and easily. This volume draws together, in the one place for the first time, some of his most important academic and journalistic work. Importantly, the pieces are drawn together by an intellectual/autobiographical commentary that locates each piece in a wider social and cultural framework. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society
Arlott
David Rayvern Allen
Author : David Rayvern Allen
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781311035
Arlott by David Rayvern Allen Pdf
John Arlott's rich Hampshire burr was the voice of BBC cricket commentary for many years, from the great Test match radio broadcasts of the fifties to bucolic Sunday League on the television in the seventies. But he was also a distinguished journalist for the Guardian, a Liberal parliamentary candidate, a courageous opponent of apartheid in sport from the earliest opportunity, and a connoisseur - and imbiber - of fine wine without equal. David Rayvem Allen's definitive biography was acclaimed on its first publication and won the Cricket Society's award for Cricket Book of the Year. Now reissued by Aurum in a new paperback edition to tie in with its publication of the author's authorised biography of E.W. Swanton, Arlott evokes both a broadcasting legend and a sensitive, humane man, whose graphic, pensive and wry commentaries came to epitomise the sound of an English summer.
The Puppy Collection #6: Cricket's Close Call
Susan Hughes
Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443148016
The Puppy Collection #6: Cricket's Close Call by Susan Hughes Pdf
Meet all kinds of puppies in this sweet illustrated series, perfect for newly independent readers! Kat, Maya, and Grace are looking after Cricket, a Yorkshire terrier puppy, when a chocolate bar disappears from Maya's backpack. Kat knows chocolate is poisonous to dogs, and the girls are worried that Cricket may have eaten the chocolate bar. But they are also afraid to tell Aunt Jenn in case they get in trouble! Can Kat, Maya, and Grace save Cricket in time?
Another Slice Of Johnners
Brian Johnston
Author : Brian Johnston
Publisher : Random House
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781448132898
Another Slice Of Johnners by Brian Johnston Pdf
Following the success of A Delicious Slice of Johnners, Barry Johnston has edited another delightful anthology based on three of his father’s most popular books, Brian Johnston’s Guide to Cricket, Chatterboxes and It’s Been a Piece of Cake.
Doctor to the World Champions
Neil Phillips
Author : Neil Phillips
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425112615
Doctor to the World Champions by Neil Phillips Pdf
This book tells the story of a career spent in Sport and Medicine, with the author eventually included in England's World Cup winning squad of 1966. Enjoy the incredible story.