Cricket

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Cricket fans everywhere will know of Len Hutton [1916-90] who as an opening batsman, enjoyed a stellar career with Yorkshire and England before and after the Second World War. Born into a family of cricketers in Fulneck, near Bradford, Hutton play...

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In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the w...

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Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses mor...

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Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in th...

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This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. M...

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For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the games subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the worlds population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of s...

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Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global pr...

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In the movie Bull Durham, frustrated manager Joe Riggins stresses to his team, "This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball." This simplification works well for biomechanists too, as sports can be brok...

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hoelderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a ...

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The bestselling author of "Little League Confidential" goes on a hilarious investigative excursion to find out what's behind America's growing obsession with golf. The humorist's unique approach to the game provides uproarious insight in...

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Few other team sports can equal the global reach of cricket. Rich in history and tradition, it is both quintessentially English and expansively international, a game that has evolved and changed dramatically in recent times. Demonstrating how the ...

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This fascinating book takes a very different look at Australia's most popular sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman. Unlike the mostly reverent literature on 'The Don', this 2003 book explains how his iconic status was created and sustained, and what ...

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In 1874, John Rae, a Bendigo schoolmaster, approached the Sandhurst Easter Fair Committee with an idea to draw the crowds: a novelty ladies' cricket match - something Australia had never seen before.   And here begins the story of women's cri...

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Cricket Drona takes us through the life of cricketing genius Vasoo Paranjape, who left a defining impact on the game, shaping the careers of some of Indian cricket's greatest figures, from Sunil Gavaskar to Sachin Tendulkar, from Rahul Dravid...

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Out of the box thinking, ruthless pragmatism and an innate ability to understand, define and then redefine the game of cricket are probably the hallmarks of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's cricket. From hitting countless sixes in his school ground in the s...

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Sachin Tendulkar made an immediate impact on the cricket world at the tender age of 16 in 1989. For the next 24 years he went from strength to strength and even in his teens was recognized as one of the world's greatest batsmen. By the end of his ...

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Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

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A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.

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The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive ...

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Cricket, law and the meaning of life ... In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of crickets defining controversies bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others David Fraser explores t...

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It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character chan...

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The 2003 World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realize its dream of political...

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Cricket and broadcasting explores how the significance of radio and television to cricket in England has grown since the beginnings of broadcasting. Since the Second World War cricket has been increasingly shaped by its relationship with broadcast...

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Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game. It is written by two specialist cricket historians and based on extensive primary research. It traces the history of t...

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Founded in 1864, Lancashire CCC have won the County Championship on seven occasions and were joint champions in 1950. However, they have made their name as one-day specialists, having won the Gillette Cup/NatWest Trophy, the Benson & Hedges Cu...

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The only official England and Wales Cricket Board guide to the grounds used for Test and County cricket in England and Wales includes a plan of every ground featured, details of how to get there, advice on places to stay and places to eat, ground ...

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The history of cricket's golden cup

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It was the venue for one of the closest and most thrilling Test matches in England in 1902, when Australia won by 3 runs; it was where Alan Lamb scored the third of his successive Test centuries in 1984 (just as Charlie Macartney did in 1926); it ...

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