WINNER OF THE 2021 WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, 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.
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