[PDF] A Novel Match At Cricket eBook

Author : Paul Salway
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1782225978

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This is a history of women’s cricket with a difference. It is the first book to trace in detail the development of the game at grass-roots level. Based on the author’s own knowledge built up over 30 years of involvement in women’s cricket, backed up by extensive in-depth research, it connects the development of the game locally with important national trends and examines the links between women’s cricket and wider social trends such as the position of women in society. A Novel Match at Cricket also attempts to answer some important questions, such as the reasons for the booms and slumps which have occurred in women’s cricket and the role that men have played helping and hindering the development of the female game. This book also looks at the lessons history has to teach those who are running women’s cricket today. It will appeal not only to those interested in cricket, but also to students of social history, particularly people engaged in women’s studies. Introduction Overture PART ONE – THE RISE Chapter 1: Missing Out Chapter 2: How It All Began 3: Signs of Change Chapter 4: The White Heather Club Chapter 5: Between the Wars – The Boom Years Chapter 6: The Gymslip Generation Chapter 7: Oxford University PART TWO – THE FALL Chapter 8: New Beginnings Chapter 9: Decline and Fall Chapter 10: School’s Out Chapter 11: The Unknown Varsity Game Chapter 12: Towards the Millenium Chapter 13: We Are the Champions PART THREE – THE LESSONS Chapter 14: When Football Banned Women…But Cricket Didn’t Chapter 15: The Theory of the Man Shortage Chapter 16: Territories, Tribes and the Oxford Anomaly Chapter 17: The Ups and Downs of the Second Half of the 20th Century Chapter 18: Marriage to the ECB – For Better or for Worse?

Author : Hugh de Selincourt
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2021-11-11T14:08:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1774644584

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The Cricket Match is the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written. Hugh de Selincourt brilliantly captures the atmosphere of Tillingfold - the model English village with its friendly peacefulness and rustic good humour - on the day of the now celebrated match against the neighbouring village of Raveley.

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1509841407

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A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.

Author : Harry Ricketts
Publisher : Ginger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780958262903

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"Ricketts takes us from his cricketing childhood in England, through cricket's curious rituals, to a seat on the bank at a 2006 match between the Black Caps & the West Indies at the Basin Reserve"--Publisher description.

Author : Ed Hawkins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1408169967

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A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...

Author : Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620970562

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As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate in 1970s Manila—a privileged, carefree existence—until one day when the secret behind his mother's tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him, turning Sunny's world upside down. His life takes a series of unexpected turns—first in England, where he falls in love with the luminous Clara, and later in Sri Lanka, where he returns during a brief lull in the country's brutal ethnic war. Reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul in his nuanced treatment of the melancholy of exile, Gunesekera takes the reader on an utterly absorbing journey across the late twentieth-century postcolonial world. Spanning three continents and thirty years, The Match is a "beautiful and atmospheric" (Irish Times) exploration of the nature of loss and displacement, the search for identity and love, and the possibility, in the end, of redemption and renewal.

Author : Kalyan B Bhattacharyya
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788129151735

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For those who eat, live and pray cricket this book is a treasure trove. With over 500 questions, trivia and quirky facts from the ODI's and Test cricket, this Quiz Book has all that has been done on the field. This is a must-have for both connoisseurs of the game and those who follow it as a profession.

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822313830

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In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.

Author : ALEXANDRA ROSEN
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466979186

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Match fixing in cricket has plagued the noble game as long as it has ever existed. Lady Andalusia, a gorgeous lass, from the erstwhile British Empire in 1810, was set to marry the dashing batsman Hughie Dawson. But fate had other ideas. Fast forward to 2010. Twenty Twenty Cricket, fast and exciting, and with its exorbitant riches, threatens the longer and purest form of the game, the five day Test Match, from its very existence. With billions of dollars in marketing and TV rights, a three match 20/20 series in London is scheduled by the billionaire descendants of Hughie Dawson. Experimental in nature, it features a Professional cricketers XI against an International selection of amateurs from each of the 10 Test playing nations. But the Coach is found mysteriously murdered after the first game, and the Amateurs XI lose their form. The obvious suspects are the match fixers who were seen approaching the Amateurs XI star batsman Amay Indulkar. But are they the real culprits? What about the gigantic spectre of a strangler? And of the tears rolling down the cheeks of a Bollywood actress? The search for a magic bat, that disappeared in 1810, bestowed with divine powers, which scores runs at will, is on. It takes detective Landon Beau and Nigel Harrison, to the Indian subcontinent, to recover it. Through the romance between Landon and his new flame, Amelia Kanowski, the series reaches a thrilling conclusion at Lords. Landon, captains the Amateurs XI, and with the help of the mysterious but elusive Lucy, finds the magic bat, and soon enough later solves the crime. This is the story of romance, of the enormous wealth and popularity of Twenty Twenty cricket, of faith and toil, Bollywood, the thrills and spills of limited overs cricket, crime, match-fixing, and the very spirit of the game.