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Cricket is defined by the characters who have played it, watched
it, reported it, ruled upon it, ruined it and rejoiced in it.
Humorous and deeply affectionate, Cricketing Lives tells the story
of the world's greatest and most incomprehensible game through
those who have shaped it, from the rustic contests of
eighteenth-century England to the spectacle of the Indian Premier
League. It's about W. G. Grace and his eye to his wallet; the
invincible Viv Richards; and Sarah Taylor, 'the best wicketkeeper
in the world . . . male or female'. Paying homage, too, to the
game's great writers, Richard H. Thomas steers a course through the
despair of war, tactical controversies and internecine politics, to
reveal how cricket has always stormed back to warm our hearts as
nothing else can.
'Completely brilliant' Ian Hislop It seemed a simple enough idea at
the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on
each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a
minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in
incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives,
cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous
American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa
Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading
Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you
bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of
one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman
could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could
possibly have wished to carry out.
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