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This title examines the history of cricket throughout the Americas
and asks if the sport could have been the national game in America,
as 22 states were playing the game in 1859. It also showcases
never-before-seen pictures including art works and selected team
scores.
This title examines the history of cricket throughout the Americas
and asks if the sport could have been the national game in America,
as 22 states were playing the game in 1859. It also showcases
never-before-seen pictures including art works and selected team
scores.
The Inside Story of The Australian Cricket Team's Tour of India -
2013 Find out what "really" happened on the Tour of India through
the wickedly outrageous chronicles of the 17th Man as he picks over
the daily entrails of a Tour gone wrong in his parallel cricketing
universe. Australian Cricket Tours of India always start with
winning expectations that are ever so slowly deflated by stifling
days watching dusty pies belted over the boundary ropes and a curry
smorgasbord that runs through you like the Ganges. Mental
disintegration under pressure is nothing new. Add the spice of
HomeWorkGate, persecution of the Mohali 4, debilitating on-field
performances and a dash of sledging and you have enough explosive
to shake the pillars of Australian cricket. NOW WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY JOCK MACNEISH What Readers Say "Funny, considered, intelligent
humour which struck a chord for me as a cricket fan" "Warwick Todd
with bite "
There are no villains here. Award-winning journalist Paul McNally finds corrupt cops, drug dealers, vigilante residents, addicts, torturers, murderers and cops partnered with drug dealers. But no villains.
Raymond is a shop owner on Ontdekkers Road, in Johannesburg, who takes a baseball bat to the dealers when they break his rules. He systematically records in his notebook the police officers who come – all day, every day – to collect their bribe money from the dealers, and is looking for someone to trust. Khaba is a middle-aged police officer who wants a quiet life but whose demons will not leave him in peace. He is trying to regain his trust in what he once regarded as an honourable profession. Wendy is a petite, ageing police reservist who can handle an R5 rifle with confidence, but not the sadness that accompanies her in her daily life – the loss of her police officer husband, brutally murdered by a drug lord, and the addiction that has her adult son in its grip. She is looking for respect and affirmation and for her own life to have meaning.
Through different paths, the lives of Raymond, Khaba and Wendy intersect on the street as their attention is focused on the current power couple – a drug dealer named Obi and Lerato, a police officer. Seemingly untouchable, Obi and Lerato terrorise Ontdekkers, and in the process upset the balance of this already lawless world.
As one of the first great wicketkeeper-batsmen Jim played 46 times
for England in a career that earned him widespread respect
throughout the game of cricket.
The complete ball by ball reference guide to the world's biggest
Twenty20 cricket league. On May 24, 2015, Eden Gardens in Kolkata
hosted the final of the 8th IPL tournament. Mumbai Indians took on
Chennai Super Kings for the third time in an IPL final and after
posting a target of over 200, saw off their opponents to win their
second title. This is a complete record of the 8th Indian Premier
League and includes full scorecards, details of every ball bowled
in all 60 matches, with over summaries, dot ball analysis and
graphical comparisons of run rates as the matches progressed. The
book is also packed with batting, bowling, fielding and extras
statistics and profiles of each team.
Using information on some 65,000 matches and more than 15,000
players, the records are given for every country in the world that
has played some form of international cricket between 24 September
1844, the date of the first international match, and the 6 April
2014. Since the records found in various annuals and on the
internet are restricted almost entirely to those countries that
play Test cricket, a large gap in the published statistical
information is filled, showing cricket as a truly global sport. The
records cover highest and lowest team scores; individual batting,
bowling, wicketkeeping and fielding performances; best wicket
partnerships of 100 runs or more and most extras in an innings.
Multi-innings, one-day and Twenty20 matches are treated separately
for both men's and women's internationals. The statistical tables
are supported by a text summarising the information provided and
highlighting important achievements.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it
developed and spread around the world. The book explores the
origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as
England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful
(Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as
part of the development of the British Empire and its role in
structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the
English, the British and postcolonial communities. Whilst
empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader
issues such as social development, imperialism, race, diaspora and
national identities. Tracing the beginnings of cricket as a 'folk
game' through to the present, it draws together these different
strands to examine the meaning and social significance of the
modern game. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the
role of sport in both colonial and post-colonial periods; the
history and peculiarities of English national identity; or simply
intrigued by the game and its history.
Who will come out Number 1 after Three Tough Tests? Follow the 17th
Man as he witnesses the epic struggle between SA and AUS for Test
Cricket Supremacy. The series unfolds day by day via the quirky and
insightful pen of The 17th Man, the last player picked in the
Australian cricket squad South Africa started as warm favourites,
but like England before them, were blasted off the park by the
Australian pace attack. All the triumph and controversy is here -
bruises and broken shoulders, sausages and stonewalling, big game
and big games. Relive it all in Sunshine on Boerewors
This is a gentle ramble through Northamptonshire cricket, through
the fields of maroon and gold. There are plenty of signposts along
the way, pointing at the big players and stopping off at some of
the big matches that, between 1974 and 2013, have been part of
Northamptonshire's cricketing map. From the author's first
introduction to life at Wantage Road, right through to the Twenty20
coronation at Edgbaston - only the fourth major trophy in
Northamptonshire's history. The book is intended to be a ramble,
pottering here and there but by no means covering all the ground.
It reflects upon how some of world cricket's biggest names
contributed to the county game with Northamptonshire and touches on
what life was like covering the fortunes of the county cricket club
as a reporter before professionalism took a stranglehold. In
particular, it tells the story of one local boy who did very good -
David Capel, who spent 33 years at Wantage Road as a boy and a man,
a player and a coach, and in-between time fitting in an England
career as an all-rounder. Former chief executive Steve Coverdale
and several former players - Capel himself, David Steele, Geoff
Cook, Dennis Lillee, Rob Bailey, Nigel Felton, Winston Davis,
Andrew Hall and David Ripley - provide an overview of a diverse and
colourful cricket club. While short of trophies, Northamptonshire's
cricketers have never fallen short in their determination to attack
and entertain over the years. Welcome to Wantage Road. Keep on
attacking
'Grand Slam' is a metaphor is derived from tennis. Cricket, like
tennis, depends on surfaces. Winning 6-0 at times is cool, but the
best can do 6-2, 6-4 again and again, across continents. Grand Slam
Tendulkar is the cricketing equivalent of that Grand Slam
Tendulkar, is essentially the last chapter of "Lessons at Love All
Play- Legend Tendulkar Matters" (Amazon ASIN B00H0LABVK, Nov 30
2013).* Re-live a golden era of Indian cricket 2007-11, with match
summaries of Indian Cricket Legend Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar
and Team India in Tests & ODIs. Tendulkar brought up his third
Test Grand Slam, and raised his ODI game, yet again, to help India
get to the top in both formats. He had a mind-boggling range of
match winning performances, as well as, support contributions-the
profile of a tournament winner. Win matches on your day and help
your teammates win it on their day #ItsATeamGame Team India grabbed
their #loveAllPlayMoment-the point when a team is ready to compete
globally-to get ahead of every other nation. Sehwag, Gambhir,
Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Kumble,
Harbhajan, Zaheer Khan, with other young stars- Kohli, Ishant
Sharma, Ashwin, Pujara, Rohit Sharma and others - were one heck of
an 'Incredible India' combination. Topics covered: The Test Grand
Slam- performing against/in each country Tendulkar's Test Cycles-
3.5 Grand Slams Match summary of every Test series of India 07-11,
crediting other legends and young stars. Tendulkar's amazing
'07-11, the numbers which matter Tendulkar achieved some stunning
sequences in consistency, which any other legend, from any era
would envy. India ahead of every Test country - Ranked #1
irrespective of ICC ratings ODI World Cups- Tendulkar the opener
World Cup Bowling review (since '92) - England and West Indies on
top India in WC '11- getting the phases and chases right "*This
abridged version is for readers, who do not wish to get into sports
essays or cricket theory, but want to get directly into the
matches. The best lessons are learnt in real games, after all A
synopsis of the earlier sections of the original, is provided with
an Appendix for reference. The same hashtag nomenclature is
followed. However, rivalries of Tendulkar with other legends- Lara,
Ponting, Kallis, the great bolwers of 1990-2000s, and comparative
notes related to past legends are in the original only."
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