Download or read book The 1935 Australian Cricket Tour of India written by Megan Ponsford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Australian cricket tour to India possesses an inherent intrigue that, for inexplicable reasons, has fallen into obscurity. Megan Ponsford rectifies this through her investigation of the uneasy relationships between Australia, British India and Indian nationalism during the interwar period, using the 1935/36 tour as a case study. The unique liaison between the entrepreneurial tour manager Frank Tarrant and the Maharaja of Patiala, who financed the exercise, led the way. From the palaces of the Raj to the foothills of the Himalayas, the evolving racial consciousness of the ragtag team of Australia cricketers defines the tour. The cricket establishment was also challenged as the tour defied the amateur game with participation encouraged by the Maharaja’s deep pockets. Employing a unique methodology, this book interprets the material culture located in the archives of the Australian and Indian cricketers. In the absence of first-hand accounts, these artefacts enable insight into the forgotten and overlooked sportspeople who are finally given the voice and acknowledgement they deserve. It is a brilliant new contribution to the study of both cricket and history, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of History, Politics, Sports, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Download or read book The Don Meets the Babe written by Ric Sissons and published by J W McKenzie. This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book First Tests written by Steve Cannane and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Australia's best-known cricketers relive their childhood summers of playing cricket in their backyards. Australia has dominated test cricket over the last 130 years. But it's not the formal cricket academies or high-end coaching that are responsible for the Australian cricket team's winning ways. the backyard has been the real academy of Australian cricket. Don Bradman's unique grip, stance and backlift all evolved in response to the pace at which the golf ball rebounded off the tank stand in his backyard games. Greg Chappell's trademark flick off the hip shot was invented on his backyard wicket where the best scoring opportunities lay on the leg side. Alan Davidson bowled accurately because he had to. If he missed the stumps on his home-made pitch, he had to chase the ball down the hill into the scrub. Doug Walters played spin with ease because his ant-bed backyard pitch spun like a top. Neil Harvey's immaculate footwork came from playing balls that darted viciously off the cobblestones in his back lane. this collection of cricketers and the stories of the backyards that made them gets to the heart and soul of their game. Facing up to hostile brothers on dodgy pitches created a love of competition and developed the skills and the toughness that took them to the top in test cricket.
Download or read book A Year to Remember written by Mark Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Waugh, number 3 batsman in the world, and a favourite son of the Australian Cricket Team has spoken in fascinating detail about his most hectic year in cricket. From triumph in the World Cup, and the Windies tour, to South Africa, and the fiercely contested Ashes series in England, it has been a remarkably tough rollercoaster ride for the players. This unusually gripping, thoughful and insightful account of a year with the Australian Cricket Team is illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
Download or read book The Cricket War written by Gideon Haigh and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Warwick Todd written by Tom Gleisner and published by ABC Enterprises(Australian Broadcasting Corporation). This book was released on 1998 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick Todd, alter ego of funnyman and actor Tom Gleisner, tells all on the Australian cricket team s journey through India and Sharjah.
Download or read book Crossing the Line written by Gideon Haigh and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2018 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Crossing the Line, Gideon Haigh conducts his own cultural review. Studying the cricket team across a decade of radical change, he finds an accident waiting to happen, and a system struggling to cope with self-created challenges, on the field and in the boardroom. Crossing the Line is the first instalment in Slattery Media Group's Sports Shorts collection, a new series of sports essays published as small-format books. Sports Shorts has been created as a home for ambitious, lively and engaging writing and journalism on sport--work of a scale and scope not suited to the confines of day-to-day journalism."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Immortals of Cricket written by Liam Hauser and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket enthusiasts endlessly debate the question of who are the best Australian players across different eras? In this book, experienced journalist and sports writer Liam Hauser selects his Immortal team from players who didn't just dominate, they changed the game with their sheer will. How do you select a team from the Australian Immortals of Cricket? In a sport saturated with statistics and analysis and changes to rules, equipment and playing conditions, and with more than 100 years of traditions and personalities to consider, just how do you make your selection? Who makes the cut and who misses out? It is sure to lead to lively discussions and debate, and certainly controversy. But whether you agree or disagree, cricket followers around the world will find this volume provides a new perspective for the debate and an invaluable insight into the cricketing careers of some of Australia's all-time IMMORTALS.
Download or read book The Sound of Summer written by Jim Maxwell and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four decades, Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered 285 Test matches, including over 50 Ashes Tests, six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, and five World Cups. His distinctive voice, dryly understated humour and immense knowledge of the game have been part of the fabric of Australian cricket for generations of listeners. It's not too much to say that Jim has been the sound of our summer. In his long-awaited memoir he reflects on his life and career, on key cricket moments that he's witnessed, and on the many and varied characters he's met along the way. The Sound of Summer is a deep insight into one of our best-loved commentators, and a fascinating, warm, nostalgic and uniquely informed view of the game he loves.
Download or read book Lords Dreaming written by Ashley Mallett and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing account of the establishment and reception of the Aboriginal team which represented Australia in the 1868 tour of England. Written and researched by well known cricket author Ashley Mallett.
Download or read book Calypso Cricket written by Roland Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A racey account of the momentous 1991 Australian cricket tour to the West Indies. Reveals the social habits and attitudes of Australian cricketers under great physical and mental pressure. Fishman is a freelance journalist and the author of TGreg Matthews'.
Download or read book The Journey written by Steve Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and revealing inside account of Steve Smith's journey from cricket-mad kid to Australian Captain.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Australian Cricket Players written by Ken Piesse and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2012 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must for fans of Australian cricket a registry of every first class player Australian cricket has developed all together in one book. Every Test, one-day international, 20/20 and Sheffield Shield player dating back to 1888 is in this book, 3,500 names, essential statistics and biographies of the main players.
Download or read book A History of Australian Cricket written by Chris Harte and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Australian Cricket was first published in 1939, when Australia was just beginning to dominate world cricket for a fourth time. Since then they have proved themselves masters of both the one-day and five-day versions of the game. This book examines the beginnings of the Australian game in the early nineteenth century and demonstrates the influence of English touring teams of the 1860s and 1870s and the coaches they left behind them. They enabled Australia to challenge England on equal terms by 1876-77. Throughout this book, cricket events are richly counter-pointed by background arrangements (and feuds) between the Board and State Associations and the remarkable career of Sir Donald Bradman is chronicled in detail - he was not only the greatest batsman ever but also a superb administrator. Taking in the Bodyline Tour and all others inbetween, this book provides unique insight into Australian cricket history right up to the modern day and amply demonstrates how the Australian Cricket Academy, which opened its doors in 1981, laid the foundations for Australia's current pre-eminence. this is the story of their journey to the top.
Download or read book India s 71 Year Test written by R. Kaushik and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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