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Author: Penguin UK Staff
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 9780947766641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most famous sports book in the world, Wisden has been published every year since 1864. This 138th edition covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records make it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
Author: Graeme Wright
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 9780947766658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Stern
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 1097
ISBN-13: 1408178966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll the highlights of 150 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Author: Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780822313830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.
Author: David Frith
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-12-16
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1780573936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCricket has an alarming suicide rate. Among international players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports: and there have been numerous instances at other levels of the game. For thirty years, celebrated cricket author David Frith has collected data on this sad subject. Silence of the Heart is his compelling account of over a hundred cricketers - involving top names from the past hundred years - who have taken their own lives, with an explanation of factors that led to their premature deaths. Can the shocking rate of self-destruction among cricketers be reduced? Can those who run the game do something to save its participants from this dreadful fate? These are among the questions addressed within this catalogue of biographies. But the key question is whether cricket itself is to blame for its losses - or is that this summer game attracts people of a melancholic and over-sensitive nature? Stoddart, Shrewsbury, Gimblett, Bairstow, Trott, Iverson, Robertson-Glasgow, Barnes . . . There remains a sense of disbelief that these high-profile cricketers killed themselves. And many more cases are examined in this extraordinary book, which comes crammed with detail, is not devoid of humour, and must rank among the most intricately researched volumes in cricket's extensive library. With a foreword by former England captain Mike Brearley, now a psychotherapist, Silence of the Heart is a startling investigative narrative covering the phenomenon of cricket's unduly high level of suicide.
Author: Rob Smyth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1472926447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichie Benaud, who died this year aged 84, was “perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War" according to Gideon Haigh, the world's best cricket historian. He excelled as a batsman, legspin bowler, revolutionary captain – and most of all as a commentator in England and Australia for almost 50 years. He was universally loved for his authority, knowledge, dry wit and generosity of spirit. Benaud in Wisden records the highlights of an exceptional career both as a player and a journalist. There are edited reports on each of his 63 Test matches, including the legendary Tied Test of 1960-61 and the match at Old Trafford in 1961 when Benaud memorably stole the Ashes from England. “If one player, more than any other, has deserved the goodwill of cricket for lifting the game out of the doldrums, that man is Richard Benaud,” said Wisden in 1962. The book also includes a series of articles written by Benaud in the Wisden Almanack after his retirement, as well as features from Wisden Cricket Monthly, The Wisden Cricketer and Wisden Asia Cricket. Benaud's impact was so great, and so enduring, that the book will appeal to teenagers, nonagenarians and everybody in between. It is the definitive record of a unique career.
Author: Simon Hughes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0755365615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1980 and 1993, Simon Hughes was a regular on the county circuit, playing for Middlesex until 1991 before moving on to Durham at the end of his career. In that time, he played alongside some of the great characters in cricket: Mike Brearley, Mike Gatting, Phil Edmonds and Ian Botham. This is not an autobiography of a good county pro, but a look at the ups and downs, the lifestyle, the practical jokes and sheer hard yakka that make such a poorly paid, insecure job appeal to so many. Now a respected journalist and broadcaster, Simon Hughes has written a brilliant, amusing and wrily self-depracating book, packed with hilarious and embarrassing anecdotes about some of the greatest cricketers of the last 20 years.
Author: Brett Hutchins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-09-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521823845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating book takes a different look at Australia's all-time sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman.
Author: Dilwyn Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 113445693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a broad range of international case studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped sport.
Author: Graeme Wright
Publisher: Penguin Uk
Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 1500
ISBN-13: 9780947766702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 139th edition ofWisden Cricketers' Almanackfeatures various articles reflecting on the life of Sir Donald Bradman, who died in 2001. Other articles include Roy Hattersley on Yorkshire's 2001 Championship, and Peter Roebuck on Mike Atherton.
