Fast bowling and controversy have been inseparable since cricket began, but there has never been a more clamorous uproar than that which occurred during the 1932-33 Test series between Australia and England. This work tells the story of that scandal.
This pocket guide contains a wealth of tips and trivia about the internationally popular game of cricket, from clubs and competitions to players and positions. Inside are details of famous rivalries, infamous records and the history of cricket, as well as practical information about playing and understanding the game.
EXPOSED! CrickiLeaks lifts the lid on sport's fiercest rivalry, revealing the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers from Ashes history. It features 40 first-person diaries, each lampooning a well-known player or cricketing figure and presented as an imagined extract from their journal.
A celebration of the 18 living Yorkshire players who have participated in the Ashes Test, including Geoff Boycott, Ray Illingworth, Michael Vaughn, Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard. This title includes interviews with some of the Yorkshire cricketing legends.
A first-hand account of England's triumphant 3-1 win over Australia in the 2010/11 Ashes Series. Written by Sports Book of the Year nominee (2010) and editor of Spin magazine Jarrod Kimber, whose unique style and dry wit led to the Guardian describing him as a 22nd-century cricket writer.
Third edition of the hugely successful Ashes Miscellany, a bestseller in 2005 and 2007. Fully revised, updated and repackaged to include the victorious 2009 and 2010/11 series, the book celebrates the rich history of one of the oldest and greatest rivalries in sport.
Which two cricket legends have taken the most catches in Ashes matches? Which player holds the record for most beers drunk on a flight between London and Sydney? Which England star missed an Ashes series after being run over by his own car? This book contains facts, stats, lists, "es and anecdotes from the greatest sporting rivalry of them all.
The Wisden Dictionary of Cricket is the definitive guide to the noble game. This fully updated third edition is not only an A-Z guide to all things cricket, it also includes illustrations showing positions and strategy, and"ations from cricket literature worldwide - from 18th century match reports right up to the Darrell Hair affair.
Headingley 1981 hosted one of the most dramatic comebacks in Test cricket, when England beat Australia by 18 runs. The bookies"ed odds of 500-1 against an England win. Two of the Australian team took those odds. This newly updated book recreates the match in rich detail with those who were there, placing events in their full context.
After The Greatest Ashes Series of All Time in 2005, comes the follow-up: The Most Anticipated Ashes Series in History. Covering the tour, the whole tour and quite a bit but the tour, Nigel Henderson's story of England's 2006-7 Australian calamity is a darkly humorous combination of cricket, continental travel and a strange obsession with chicken parmigana.
This book is an evocative celebration of the many homes of Glamorgan since their inception, presenting a superb photographic record, including many previously unpublished images, supplemented by statistical details. It is compiled by Dr Andrew Hignell, Hon. Statistician and Historian to Glamorgan CCC, and will appeal to both Glamorgan supporters and crickets fans everywhere.
A companion to Wisden's Almanacks that will act as a guide for fans and collectors of the Almanacks as well as cricket enthusiasts. It will include the vital statistics of each edition, noteworthy events, matches and obituaries from every year, world news
The Ashes, the symbol of cricket supremacy between England and Australia, is the game's oldest rivalry This work collects hundreds of the best stories to create an account of these two nations divided by a common game. It features the giants of the game, the memorable Ashes matches, gamesmanship, Bodyline, tales of travel, cricket fever, and more.
It's time to open up the thumping third edition of World Cricket Records - a massive collection of team and player records, facts and stats, covering every aspect of international cricket from around the globe. This book has 251 pages and is 29.3cm x 22.5cm x 1.8cm
Presents a selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. This title is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to happen - from creating a
What is the highest number of runs a player has scored in Test matches without ever being dismissed? Did P G Wodehouse name Bertie Wooster's valet, Jeeves, after a county cricketer? Why is Ashley Giles known as the 'King of Spain'? This work collects some of the best of the Q & As from the author's popular column.
* The first time a full anthology of the Telegraph's cricket writing has been published * Drawn from both the Daily and Sunday Telegraph * From W.G. Grace's obituary to this year's World Cup * Many of cricket's finest commentators over the years, from E.W. Swanton to Tony Lewis and Mark Nicholas
Welsh and Australian cricket have come a long way since a visiting Aborigine team first played at Swansea in 1868. Since then, the traditional tour fixture with Glamorgan has long been regarded the unofficial extra Test of an Ashes summer. This work looks back over each visit to Wales by an Australian touring team.
In this fascinating book, Mike Atherton selects the best pieces he has written over the last decade. Renowned as a shrewd and resolute captain of England, Atherton moved effortlessly into the commentary box and Fleet Street, proving himself every bit as capable with the pen as with the bat. It has been a dramatic period, seeing the rise of Twenty20 cricket and the IPL, as well as the revival of England's prospects, breaking a long era of Australian dominance in the Ashes. There has also been controversy, too, with terrorist attacks, Zimbabwe and allegations of Pakistani spot-fixing all distracting fans from the essence of the game. Through it all, Atherton comments with the true insight of one who has been there, the humane understanding of someone who has genuine empathy for the issues involved and, above all, his opinions are based on a deep love for the game and sport in general. His writing has become essential reading for all sports fans. This book shows exactly why that is the case.
Features 200 bizarre curiosities highlighting the First, Last and Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of Cricket - from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century and take all ten wickets in a single innings.
From matches played on a village green to the high church splendour of Lord's, in A Last English Summer, multi-award-winning author Duncan Hamilton preserves the 2009 cricket season, a seminal, convulsive time in the sport's history. In prose by turns reflective and glorious, he remembers all we have lost whilst displaying an overwhelming love for the game that stands out on every page.
The Cheltenham & Gloucester Cricket Year once again provides the first overview of the cricket season, both at home and abroad. Lavish in presentation, compelling in style and comprehensive in breadth, the Cheltenham & Gloucester Cricket Year 2006 features reports from professional cricketers and commentators around the world.
Phil Tufnell, aka 'Tuffers', is the much-loved English cricketer from the 1990s who has now become one of this country's favourite broadcasters. Not cast from the same mould as other players of his generation, Tufnell became a cult figure for his unorthodox approach to the game.. . and to life in general. 'Tuffers' Cricket Tales' is a deliciously eccentric collection of the great man's favourite cricket stories that will amuse and inform in equal measure. Tufnell's unmistakably distinctive voice, as heard to such good effect on 'Test Match Special', steers fans through dozens and dozens of terrifically entertaining and insightful anecdotes, garnered from his 25-year playing and broadcasting career. He introduces a cast of genuinely colourful characters found in dressing-rooms and commentary boxes from around the world, and in the process offers a uniquely warm and quirky homage to his sport. A perfect Father's Day gift for all cricket fans. This book has 342 pages and is 24cm x 16cm x 3cm
Cricket is the story of how the game has developed across the world from the birth of the famous Ashes rivalry between England and Australia in the late 19th century through to the glitz and glamour of the money-spinning Indian Premier League. The games history, rules, culture, and more are chronicled in this fact-filled encyclopaedia, packed with full colour photos.
Freddie Flintoff and W.G. Grace: together at last! W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo is a spoof 1896 periodical from The Wisden Cricketer archives that looks at cricketing events of 2010 through a Victorian lens. Funny, irreverent and lavishly illustrated, this is the most original cricket book of the last 114 years.
Glamorgan CCC On This Day chronicles, in diary form, the major events in the cricket club's history. With individual entries for every day, and multiple listings for more historic and busier days, the book includes all the club's big matches, cup finals, significant events and sensational signings.