Cricketing lives : a characterful history from pitch to page / Richard H. Thomas ; foreword by Daniel Norcross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Richard (Richard H.), author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cricket--History.

Cricket.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As famous for its complicated rules as it is for its contentious (and lengthy) matches, cricket is the quintessentially English sport. Or is it? From cricket in literature to sticky wickets, Cricketing Lives is a paean to the quirky characters and global phenomenon that are cricket. Cricket is defined by the characters who have played it, watched it, reported it, ruled upon it, ruined it, and rejoiced in it. Humorous and deeply affectionate, Cricketing Lives tells the story of the world's greatest and most incomprehensible game through those who have shaped it, from the rustic contests of eighteenth-century England to the spectacle of the Indian Premier League. It's about W. G. Grace and his eye to his wallet; the invincible Viv Richards; and Sarah Taylor, "the best wicketkeeper in the world." Richard H. Thomas steers a course through the despair of war, tactical controversies, and internecine politics, to reveal how cricket has always warmed our hearts as nothing else can.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Glossary

Foreword

Introduction

1. Lumpy, Mynn and Silver Billy Until The Mid-Nineteenth Century

2. The 'Golden Age', Grace and Trumper The Turn of The Twentieth Century

3. More Golden Age Champions Victorians and Edwardians

4. Gentlemen, Players, Varsity and Roses Background Developments

5. The Greatest Rivalry Even Bigger Background Developments

6. Good for Nothing and Nobody The First World War

7. Governance, Grounds, Grandees, Books and Benefactors Three Hundred Years of Organization and Altruism

8. Boxing, Sound Thrashings and The Big Ship The 1920s

9. Touring, Tennyson and Rollo Still Mainly in The 1920s

10. Root, Tich, Learie and Sandham The 1920s Become The 1930s

11. Bradman and Hammond The Greatest, But for One Man

12. Old Friends Fall Out The 1930s

13. Nayudu, Vizzy, Verity, Grimmett, Gimblett and Smith More From The 1930s

14. Cricket On The Cusp of War Even More From The 1930s

15. Victims, Survivors and Invincibles The 1940s

16. New Starts, New Stars and Caribbean Skies The 1940s and 1950s

17. Brylcreem Boys More From The 1940s and 1950s

18. Sensitive Spinners The Mid-1950s

19. Tied Test and Tumult The 1960s

20. Small Changes, Big Characters More From The 1960s

21. Shorter Formats, New Stars The 1960S and 1970s

22. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained From The 1960s to The 1990s

23. The Holy Trinity Nine Decades of Writers and Talkers

24. World Cups and World Beaters from The 1970s to The 1990s

25. Revolutions and Rebels The 1970s to The New Millennium

26. One Man'S Salvation 1981

27. Women'S Cricket A Century of Inequality

28. Cricket Will Never Die A New Millennium

Appendix The Laws of Cricket at a Glance

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2021).

ISBN:

9781789143720

1789143721

Publisher Number:

40030571204

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.