Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2012

Author: Lawrence Booth
Publisher: Wisden
ISBN: 9781408156346
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Wisden 2012 - the 149th edition - contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Including the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and some of the finest sports writing of the year - such as the brilliant obituaries - together with trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack truly is a "must-have" for every cricket fan. A perennial bestseller in the UK. "There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it's obviously Wisden". Andrew Baker in the Daily Telegraph

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy

Author: Ed Hawkins
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408169967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...

The Shorter Wisden 2012

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408180219
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 585

Book Description
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2011 season.

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1999

Author: Matthew Engel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947766511
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 1500

Book Description
The 136th edition ofWisden Cricketers' Almanackis edited by Matthew Engel. It looks ahead to the 1999 World Cup in England, and reflects on England's 1998 Test series victory over South Africa, and subsequent defeat by a Sri Lankan team inspired by Muttiah Muralitharan, one of the Five Cricketers of the Year.

The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2012

Author: Steven Lynch
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408165309
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
With Tests and One Day Internationals now joined by Twenty20 games, there is more international cricket than ever before. These games captivate a television audience of tens of millions throughout the year and throughout the world. But how do you keep track of all the players? The Wisden Guide to International Cricket (formerly known as The ESPN Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket) is the answer. The 2012 edition of this already popular annual paperback will contain crisply written profiles of everyone expected to appear in a Test match in 2012. Published in November 2011, at the beginning of international cricket's busiest time of year, this is the only guide that tells you HOW they play as well as what they've achieved. The 200 players featured in the book all get full-page treatment, with a photograph alongside a career summary in words, facts and figures. And to back up the profiles, there are quick-fire records for every country, and up-to-date statistics from www.cricinfo.com, the world's biggest cricket website. The Wisden Guide to International Cricket is the essential companion for every cricket lover, and the ideal complement to the long-standing Spring bestsellers Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and Playfair.

WISDEN CRICKETERS ALMANACK 2021

Author: BOOTH LAWRENCE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472975485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2016

Author: Lawrence Booth
Publisher: Wisden
ISBN: 9781472924568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1584

Book Description
*Large-format edition* The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year - from the likes of Lawrence Booth, Gideon Haigh, Rob Smyth, Patrick Collins, Simon Wilde, Osman Samiuddin, Tony Cozier, Benj Moorehead, Raf Nicholson and Dileep Premachandran - it includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. As always, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records. A perennial bestseller in the UK, yet again this year's edition - the 153rd, Wisden 2016 - is truly a "must-have" for every cricket fan. "There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it's obviously Wisden" Andrew Baker in the Daily Telegraph @WisdenAlmanack

The Shorter Wisden 2013

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408192268
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2022

Author: Lawrence Booth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472991109
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632

Book Description
The 159th edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers reports and scorecards for all Tests, one-day and Twenty20 internationals, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.

An Island's Eleven

Author: Nicholas Brookes
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354928269
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 622

Book Description
From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world's most remarkable cricketers - larger-than-life characters who thumbed convention and played the game their own way. More so than anywhere else in the world, Sri Lankan cricket has an identity. This is the land of pint-sized swashbuckling batsman, on-the-fly innovators and contorted, cryptic spinners. On the field of play, Victorian ideals of the past collide with madcap tropical hedonism to create something dizzying. Cricket is Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka is cricket. We all know the story of the '96 World Cup: how a team of unfancied amateurs rose from obscurity to the top the world, doing so with such swagger that they changed the way the game was played. Yet the lore of Sri Lankan cricket stretches back much further. In the early days, matches between colonists and locals imbued cricket with a nationalistic drive. Ashes-bound ships stopping over in Colombo brought the world's biggest stars, from Bligh and Bradman to Grace and Grimmet. More recently, Sri Lanka has had to face the triumphs and tragedies that come when cash flows freely into the gentleman's game. An Island's Eleven tells this story for the first time, focusing on the characters and moments that have shaped the game forever.