A Social History of English Cricket

Author: Derek Birley
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1845137507
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
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.

This is Cricket

Author: Daniel Melamud
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847868575
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of the WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR award and the TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR, this book is a celebration of the elegance and timeless beauty of cricket—its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today’s stars, along with its idyllic and hallowed grounds. Cricket has been played for over three hundred years and in some ways remains largely unchanged. It is this timelessness, and the style and spirit in which the game is conducted, which is celebrated in This Is Cricket. The book brings together such idyllic settings as Sir Paul Getty's Ground in Buckinghamshire, U.K., surrounded by rolling countryside, with the Otago cricket ground in New Zealand set against a backdrop of mountains, as well as the sport's most hallowed pitches, including Lord's (opened by Thomas Lord in 1814) and Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted the first-ever International "Test" match in 1877. Readers will venture on a journey to the Caribbean, where the fast bowling attack of the West Indies reigned in the 1970s, and to India, where cricket soared to new heights in the 1980s. From Shane Warne's hat-trick at the MCG in 1994 to Ben Stokes's heroics at Lord's and Headingley in 2019, This Is Cricket captures many of the game's most extraordinary events and players. The striking images of on-field action as well as candid dressing-room moments, some published here for the first time, are taken by some of the most respected photographers in sport. Featuring bucolic village greens, charming pavilions, endearing team portraits, extraordinary catches, devastating bowling, heroic batting, stylish sweaters, and silly fancy dress, this book illustrates why cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and why it is truly loved by so many.

Cricket Sticker Book

Author: Emily Bone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474921770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Cricket fans will love to dress the bowler, batsman, wicket keeper and fielders in their cricket gear, organise the players on the pitch and place their team in the perfect position to score a century in this brilliant sticker book. With over 450 stickers, including pages on the rules of cricket, this is a great way to learn all about cricket.

KARNATAKA CRICKET'S HALL OF FAME AND ITS CORRIDORS in English language

Author: S.S.SHREEKUMAR
Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
The book contains profiles and photos of all legendary cricketers from EAS Prasanna, GR Vishwanath, BS Chandrasekhar, Brijesh Patel down to K. L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal who have played for India is all or any two or one of the three formats - Tests, ODIs or T20Is. There are others who have done yeoman service to Karnataka but never got their due. Profiles of some rising stars and also a section on Women's cricketers. It also contains other interesting chapters and records. I have also given the Roll of Honour of major cricket tournaments in the end. It is essentially a book which provides information about Karnataka cricketers in one package. This has not been attempted before and I will be the first to do so.

The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900

Author: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

Book Description

The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840

Author: Mark Rowe
Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN: 1708165754
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Cricket has come a long way since players could only travel on foot, or by horse and cart. Some things never change; someone has to bat, someone bowl, someone be captain; everyone has to learn. The game is nothing without cricketers; yet the men (or women) on the field are never the full story, as The Summer Field shows. It includes spectators, journalists, ground-keepers, coaches, umpires, selectors and tea ladies. Nor is it only the story of the greatest players, such as Sydney Barnes and Herbert Sutcliffe; we meet also Will Richards, the Nottingham school-teacher; his friend George Wakerley, the job-hunting club professional; and Freeman Barnardo, of Eton and Cambridge. This history of cricket since the coming of the railways seeks to answer questions, such as: what was it like to play cricket in the past? Who played it, and why did they? And why are the English so obsessed with Australia?

Cricket, Capitalism and Class

Author: Chris McMillan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000970566
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history, development, exigencies and contradictions of capitalist political economy. From the aristocratic capture of the artisan’s game to the commodified entertainment of private T20 leagues, the story of cricket has been told against the background of capitalism. Cricket was the gentlemanly vanguard of the English-led British empire which forged the first iteration of international capitalism that was reliant upon a political and commercial partnership between rulers and the ruled, and today it speaks to the productive tension between the emergence of the Asian century and the power of American cultural imperialism. Reading capitalism as a cultural, economic and political system, this book explores the relationship between cricket and capitalism, and illuminates many of the most important themes in contemporary sport studies, such as class, race, gender, globalisation, nationalism, neoliberalism, commodification and migration. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, the sociology of sport, global political economy, political theory or cultural studies.

Wisden India Almanack 2017

Author: Suresh Menon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9385936506
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 844

Book Description
The fifth edition of Wisden India Almanack has essays from the best writers, and those from other fields who are passionate about the sport, like the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella. The coverage of domestic cricket is both extensive and original. The Almanack is actually four books in one: a volume of essays, a book of records, an annual of matches played, and a miscellany of unusual occurrences, all of which make for a great read. It is a treat for the cricket fanatic, and for those interested in fine writing and intriguing stories.

Cricket's Changing Ethos

Author: Jon Gemmell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319763393
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The work examines the impact of globalisation and marketization on cricket and analyses the shift from an English dominance, on a sport that is ever-increasingly being shaped by Asian forces. The book’s distinctiveness lies in trying to decode the spirit of the game, outlining a set of actual characteristics rather than a vague sense of values. An historical analysis shows how imperialism, nationalism, commercialism and globalisation have shaped and adapted these characteristics. As such it will be of interest to students and scholars of sport sociology, post-colonialism, globalisation as well as those with an interest in the game of cricket and sport more generally.

Liberation Cricket

Author: Hilary Beckles
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719043154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
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.