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And God Created Cricket (Paperback)
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And God Created Cricket (Paperback)
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Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From
its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version
played by shepherds called creag in the 1300s), through the
formation of the MCC and the opening of Lord's cricket ground in
1787, to the spread of county cricket in the next century, when the
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published and the Ashes
series was born, this simple sport of bat and ball has captured the
imagination of the masses. Throughout its 500-year history, cricket
has been a mirror for society as a whole, reflecting the changes
that have brought us from the quintessential village green to
Freddie Flintoff's pedalo, from W G Grace to Monty Panesar, via a
fair number of eccentrics, heroes and downright villains. William
Hill Award-winning writer Simon Hughes, no mean player himself, has
lived and breathed cricket his whole life and now takes his
analytical skills and typically irreverent eye to charting the
history of English cricket. But this is no dry, dusty tome. It is
the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the
extraordinary lengths people will go to to watch and play it, the
tale of a national obsession. It debunks the myth of cricket
sportsmanship, showing the origins of sledging and match-fixing in
centuries of subterfuge, corruption and violence. And it takes us
beyond sport, to the heart of what it really means to be English.
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