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Sixty Great Scottish Cricket Games (Paperback)
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Sixty Great Scottish Cricket Games (Paperback)
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Cricket is a very old game in Scotland - far older than football, a
sport which sometimes exercises a baleful, obsessive and
deleterious effect on the national psyche. Cricket goes back at
least as far as the Jacobite rebellions and their sometimes vicious
aftermaths. It is often felt that Scottish cricket underplays
itself. It has been portrayed as in some ways an English sport, a
"softies" sport, and a sport that has a very limited interest among
the general population of Scotland. This is emphatically not true,
and this book is in part an attempt to prove that this is a
misconception. Sixty-one games (it was going to be just 60, but one
turned up at the last minute!) have been chosen from the past 250
years to show that cricket does indeed influence a substantial part
of the nation. The matches have been selected at all levels, from
Scotland against visiting Australian teams all the way down to a
Fife school fixture. These naturally reflect the life, experience
and geographical whereabouts of the author. The games are quirky
sometimes, (and quirkily chosen) with an emphasis on important
events in the broader history of this country, notably the
imminence of wars and resumptions at the end of these conflicts.
But the important thing is that every single cricket contest does
mean an awful lot to some people.
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