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Kevin Pietersen's cricketing career has been full of drama, both on the pitch and away from it. In this, his new memoir, Kevin recalls the key battles he's faced at the crease and reflects on his most memorable innings.
The book offers a unique perspective on what it feels like to be a batsman facing some of the most hostile bowling attacks in the world, and an understanding of how his cricketing brain operates.
Above all, it is going to be a celebration of an extraordinary career - a must-read for all sports fans.
A funnily serious book for intelligent cricket lovers. In 27
chapters Watching Cricket on the Radio challenges orthodoxy and
stimulates sensible thinking about "the great game". Satire and
science, and idle thoughts in intervals, sparks cricket devotee Dr.
Dan's speculations: Red or white ball, why follow cricket at all?
Anyway, what is 'Good Cricket'? Could cricket coverage be improved?
Why prefer radio to television commentary? Current and future
technologies, for better or worse? Heuristics galore, how better to
judge a match? Better than a hat trick, what do you call it? What
of cricketing chimpanzees or a cloned cricketer? Join the English
gentleman and X-Professor of Systems Science and Engineering's
enjoyment of all cricket. Relive with him a hilarious commentary at
Lord's and other matches he watched on the radio. "Dr. Dan's
Diaries - worth a million there." - Tweet read out on BBC local
radio, Middlesex v. Durham at Lord's, 10th. September, 2014, and
not from the author.
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.
Between 1967-69 Henry Blofeld was fortunate to witness cricket on
three continents. He followed the great West Indies side captained
by Garry Sobers through its home series against England - to the
1968-9 Australian tour, and finally their early summer '69 tour of
England. Two main themes are explored throughout: The gradual
demise of the West Indian side that included the likes of Lance
Gibbs, Basil Butcher and Deryck Murray - but which also saw the
emergence of future greats such as Clive Lloyd - and the link
between a country's topography, style and endemic characteristics
with the type of cricket it plays. These threads are skilfully
woven together to highlight great cricketing moments and analyse
the humour and style of both the Australians and West Indians with
thoughtful insight.
Lord's Cricket Ground is the most famous cricket ground in the
world. It is the home of Marylebone Cricket Club (M.C.C.) and is
variously described as the 'cathedral of cricket' and the ground at
which all Test cricketers aspire to play and to play well.England's
first Test match at Lord's was played in 1884 and their opponents
were naturally Australia but series between the two countries had
not then become known as the 'Ashes series'. England won that first
Test match at Lord's by an innings.The 'Ashes' Test match scheduled
for July 2013 will be England's 125th Lord's Test and this book
records that match and all the previous ones in a brilliantly
descriptive history of Test cricket played at this iconic ground.
This wonderfully illustrated book brings to life the historic and
the contemporary and will most certainly grace the bookshelves of
cricket lovers around the world. Also recorded are two Tests played
between teams other than England, in 1912 and 2010, and one in 1970
which lost its Test match status much to the disappointment of one
man.
The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about
cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father
following his son's career in the public eye and the close
relationship they share. Jonathan Smith is the father of Ed Smith,
a prominent writer and former Kent, Middlesex and England
cricketer. The Following Game is a follow-up to Jonathan's
critically-acclaimed 2002 book The Learning Game, one of the most
talked-about books in education over the last ten years.
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