Tom Emmett The Spirit Of Yorkshire Cricket

Author : Jeremy Lonsdale
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781908165992

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Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket by Jeremy Lonsdale Pdf

Lord Hawke called Tom Emmett ‘the greatest “character” who ever stepped on to the field’. Born in Halifax in 1841, Emmett worked as a mill hand and did not make his Yorkshire debut until 1866. Almost at once he was part of the most destructive fast bowling partnership in England with George Freeman. In the 1860s, he once took 16 wickets for Yorkshire in an afternoon. In the 1870s, only one other player scored over 4,000 runs and took over 400 wickets in English cricket: W.G.Grace. Emmett had his best ever season with the ball in the 1880s, aged nearly 45. In all first-class cricket, he took over 1,500 wickets at under 14, bowling in an idiosyncratic style which included wides and balls ‘which no man had ever seen or dreamed of before’. For three decades, Emmett travelled endlessly to appear in club and county matches, and went to Australia three times in five years, appearing in the first Test match. He set records and won games, but also played in a style which at one time made him ‘the most popular professional in England.’ He pleased cricket followers with his wit and enthusiasm, but his life had a large share of tragedy. How he handled those highs and lows made him the true spirit of Yorkshire cricket.

Author : Jeremy Lonsdale
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912421206

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A Game Divided: Triumphs and troubles in Yorkshire cricket in the 1920s by Jeremy Lonsdale Pdf

Between 1922 and 1925 Yorkshire County Cricket Club won the County Championship four years in a row, making it one of the most successful sides ever in the history of the English county game. A line-up which included Wilfred Rhodes, Percy Holmes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay and Maurice Leyland dominated English cricket for much of the decade, taking a highly professional approach to the game. Unsurprisingly, they were heroes to many, but despite this success, the side was at times unpopular and the subject of trenchant criticism. A Game Divided takes as its starting point the events during the match between Yorkshire and Middlesex at Sheffield in July 1924, which provoked a falling out between the counties. These events and how they were portrayed shine a light on many of the divisions in English cricket of the time – between north and south, amateur and professional, employer and employee, and between different perspectives on sportsmanship and the style in which the game should be played. The book looks at the triumphs and troubles that shaped Yorkshire cricket in the decade and asks just how great was this side of match-winners.

Author : Jeremy Lonsdale
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912421084

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A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20 by Jeremy Lonsdale Pdf

Over two million British men were injured or killed in the First World War. Millions more people supported the war effort at home – in factories, fields or by keeping essential services going. In these circumstances, how could something as trivial as cricket continue? For some, it was not acceptable; for others, watching or playing sport were reasonable responses to government calls to ‘carry on’. A Game Sustained examines what happened to cricket at all levels in Yorkshire between 1914 and 1918; how it kept going with so many men away; how its top league managed to attract players such as Hobbs, Barnes and Woolley; and how, when peace came, cricket resumed its place in county life in 1919 and 1920. It is a story of divided opinions and of guilt and uncertainty about the correct way to behave. It is also the story of efforts to sustain traditions and to keep some sense of normality at a time of crisis.

Author : Duncan Hamilton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408170403

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Wisden on Yorkshire by Duncan Hamilton Pdf

Yorkshire County Cricket Club is by far the most successful county cricket club in history. Since the County Championship was constituted in 1890, Yorkshire has, in addition to one shared Championship, won it outright on 30 occasions and Yorkshire cricket supporters take great pride in the county's cricketing history. As well as the club's successes, there have been 42 Yorkshire players chosen as Wisden Cricketers of the Year. Many have been world-class cricketers such as Wilfred Rhodes, Len Hutton, Fred Trueman and Geoffrey Boycott, with distinguished England careers. Many thousands of Wisden pages have been filled with Yorkshire cricket, Yorkshire cricketers and Tests in Yorkshire. Wisden on Yorkshire is a fascinating journey mixing great matches, personalities, feats, controversies and unusual occurrences. Presenting the best Yorkshire info from the Almanack archives, Wisden on Yorkshire includes: Focus on the iconic Yorkshire players, such as Truman and Boycott Cricketers of the Year and Obituaries The County's history, highlighting significant years and extracts from reviews of those years Fascinating stories of both the highs and lows in the club's history colour plate section containing superb classic images Detailed records, match reports and scorecards

Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845137502

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A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley Pdf

Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.

Author : Robert Stratten Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Cricket
ISBN : NYPL:33433044642936

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The History of Yorkshire County Cricket by Robert Stratten Holmes Pdf

Author : David Lemmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : IND:30000000791255

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The Wisden Book of Cricket Quotations by David Lemmon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : UCAL:C2723996

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The Boy's Own Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : West India Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:D0001125327

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Chronicle by West India Committee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : West Indies, British
ISBN : UFL:31262077392537

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Chronicle of the West India Committee by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terence Prittie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Cricket
ISBN : UGA:32108010037094

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Mainly Middlesex by Terence Prittie Pdf

Author : Edwin Barnard
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780642277503

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Capturing Time by Edwin Barnard Pdf

Panoramas, whether painted or photographed, were the nineteenth-century equivalent of IMAX or Google maps. These wide-angled views of landscapes and cities fascinated viewers, who had never before seen such far-reaching perspectives on the world around them. Based on the National Library of Australia¿s extensive collections, Capturing Time: Panoramas of Old Australia looks back on our nation through the magic of panoramas to the streets of Sydney when it was the convict capital, to the gold rushes of Melbourne and to Perth, struggling to establish a toehold on the continent¿s western frontier. Dating from 1810 to the 1920s, the paintings and photographs include historic views of all of Australia¿s capital cities, plus some country towns. Not only can readers imagine what it might have been like to stand on Sydney¿s Observatory Hill in 1820, for example, but also what it would have been like to stand there with a companion able to point out landmarks and tell the sorts of interesting stories that only locals know.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000093223422

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Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Duff Traill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210019742939

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Literature by Henry Duff Traill Pdf

Author : William Gilbert Grace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Cricket
ISBN : UOM:39015062222990

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Cricket by William Gilbert Grace Pdf