The Invincibles
The Invincibles

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: University-Press.org

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781230634517

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 268. Chapters: Donald Bradman, Keith Miller, Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Neil Harvey, Lindsay Hassett, Ray Lindwall, Sam Loxton, Fourth Test, 1948 Ashes series, Ian Johnson, First Test, 1948 Ashes series, Ray Lindwall with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Arthur Morris, Second Test, 1948 Ashes series, Bill Brown, Lindsay Hassett with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Arthur Morris with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Don Tallon, Ian Johnson with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Bill Johnston with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Third Test, 1948 Ashes series, Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, 1948 Ashes tour matches, Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series, Bill Brown with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Ernie Toshack with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Don Tallon with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Colin McCool with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Keith Johnson, Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, 1948 English cricket season. Excerpt: Keith Ross Miller MBE (28 November 1919 - 11 October 2004) was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite. English journalist Ian Wooldridge called Miller "the golden boy" of cricket, leading to him being nicknamed "Nugget." He "was more than a...

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017
Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017

Author: Stephen Wagg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1317557298

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Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game’s evolution as an international sport, analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the development of the women’s game; the new breed of coach; the limits to the game’s global expansion; and the rise of India as the world’s leading cricket power. Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017 is fascinating reading for anybody interested in the contemporary history of sport.

Philip Larkin: Letters Home
Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Author: Philip Larkin

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0571335616

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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship- But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkin's biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

If I was you, I wouldn't be startin' from here
If I was you, I wouldn't be startin' from here

Author: Michael Hill

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1479736473

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“If I Was You I Wouldn’t Be Startin From Here” This is the story of a working class boy born before the last war and tells the story of his life. His early life living in Ireland and the tumultuous times in Ireland before and after the war. The astonishing events of his Mother’s death and the turmoil that ensued. The quaint and different attitude of the culture of youth at that time. His struggle to understand himself and the world. He tell of his experience in the RAF and his emergence into the Trade Union movement after University and he tries to show that in some way he had enjoyed an immensity of good luck which as his story unfolds has a certain rhythm which he is sure has order and cohesion. He demonstrates this with humour and irony.This is his story.

Professionalism and Commercialism in Australian Cricket
Professionalism and Commercialism in Australian Cricket

Author: Malcolm Abbott

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9819976693

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This book focuses on the development of cricket in Australia, with a focus on the commercial and professional aspects of the game. It takes a historical approach and analyses the reasons behind the ebbs and flows of commercialisation in the game. It also applies economic analysis to help provide it with some original insights into the way in which the game is structured and has developed in Australia. The book would be of interest to a range of people both in Australia and abroad, who are interested in the manner in which sport in the modern world has become a commercialised pursuit.

The Cricket War
The Cricket War

Author: Gideon Haigh

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0522854753

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In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a 39-year-old businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised World Series Cricket. The Cricket War, now published with a new introduction and afterword, is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white balls and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms, Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves. A compelling account of top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the tycoon who became Australia's richest man.