Cricket Conversations
Author | : Peter Walker |
Publisher | : London : Pelham |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Crichet players Interviews |
ISBN | : 9780720710472 |
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Author | : Peter Walker |
Publisher | : London : Pelham |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Crichet players Interviews |
ISBN | : 9780720710472 |
Author | : Anthony Bateman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317158040 |
In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Author | : Gideon Haigh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 147295064X |
One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves. A compelling account of the top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the man who became Australia's richest, and remained so, until the day he died. It was the end of cricket as we knew it – and the beginning of cricket as we know it. Gideon Haigh has published over thirty books, over twenty of them about cricket. This edition of The Cricket War, Gideon Haigh's first book about cricket originally published in 1993, has been updated with new photographs and a new introduction by the author.
Author | : John Duncan |
Publisher | : Metro Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2011-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1843584654 |
Remarkable cricket by remarkable people, from Rory Bremner to the Duke of Edinburgh.Boundaries, maidens, Botham and Bell; centuries, ducks, Lara and Laker...in this amazing collection of interviews, John Duncan explores the idiosyncratic, historical and entertaining game of cricket through people who share a true passion for the sport. Drawing upon various cricketing memories of some of the most respected names in British culture, busines and politics -- including Michael Parkinson, Sir Tim Rice and the Duke of Edinburgh -- and covering a variety of topics such as classic matches and personal cricketing heroes, Cricket Wonderful Cricket is an entertaining and unique insight into the eccentric and indeed wonderful game of cricket.
Author | : Souvik Naha |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009276255 |
What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting cricket, the imperial game par excellence, as the lifeforce of the ordinary Indian? This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture. Cricket, it shows, gave the people a tool to understand and form themselves as a cultural community. More than the outcomes of matches, the beliefs, attitudes and actions the sport generated had an immense bearing on emerging social relationships.
Author | : Dan Whiting |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0752492705 |
Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Factor 50. Here we cover most aspects of cricket, as we speak with some of the finest, funniest, larger than life characters from the sport over the last thirty years, along with a selection of hilarious stories about the game. It’s a highly amusing book; read it and you’ll see why most cricketers, whether from club, county or international level, as well as the sport’s most prominent journalists are all talking about those cheeky chaps from The Middle Stump, and their alternative take on the game of cricket.
Author | : Gideon Haigh |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cricket |
ISBN | : 0522854753 |
In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a 39-year-old businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised World Series Cricket. The Cricket War, now published with a new introduction and afterword, is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white balls and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms, Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves. A compelling account of top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the tycoon who became Australia's richest man.
Author | : The Batting Doctor |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1479767425 |
With 50 years of passionate involvement in cricket; extensive effort to constantly understand and improve what I do; insightful exploration of such things as ancient Chinese and Japanese texts as well as modern psychology concepts, I have developed my own philosophies and ways of doing things in cricket. Many of these ways are unique to me and opposite to conventional instruction. Whilst my hearing, memory and physical condition are all in decline, the satisfaction gained from understanding what motivates and can improve an individual remains a major source of inspiration. Often I have observed people with extraordinary talent give up just short of what they could achieve, yet others with less talent, but with an indomitable spirit continue on and reap the rewards of success. Why does this happen? We simply have not been educated in how to harness and use our thinking minds wisely. The result is that our efforts in life are often hit or miss. Importantly the WISDOM contained in my book, can help my readers better identify, connect with and meet the challenges that their involvement in cricket will bring.
Author | : Nicholas Wanostrocht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Cricket |
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Author | : Alfred William Pullin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Cricket |
ISBN | : |