Download or read book In a League of Their Own written by Richard Sydenham and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In A League Of Their Own' is an insightful look at how many of the game's great players rate their best cricketers of the 20th and 21st century.
Download or read book Legends of Cricket written by Geoff Armstrong and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to identify the 25 greatest cricketers of all time, ESPN assembled a panel of eminent cricket authorities. The result of their deliberations became the basis for ESPN's Legends of Cricket. In Legends of Cricket, Geoff Armstrong profiles each of the champions who made the top 25. The panel included Richie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Allan Border, Ian Botham, Ian Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar and Sir Richard Hadlee.The profiles feature the opinions of more than 40 current and former Test stars, including 21 Test captains, the world's most famous umpire and a number of high-profile commentators and writers.
Download or read book Merv Hughes 104 Cricket Legends written by Merv Hughes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With trademark wit and wisdom, cricket legend and one of Australia's best-loved players shares his views on 104 greats of the game. Understanding cricket and cricketers has been a lifelong quest for Merv Hughes. * How much can a roommate take before events deteriorate into shaving cream at ten paces? * How seriously should senior players take their responsibility to train young twelfth men? * What makes a good captain? Now, for the first time, Merv brings us a combination of yarns about his favourite players as well as his observations on the game. In Merv Hughes' 104 Cricket Legends, he shares his thoughts on the importance of training effectively, learning by watching how the best approach their preparation and the qualities that make a player a champion. And he takes us through the 104 legends (teammates, opponents and heroes) who all had an influence on the cricketer Merv became.
Download or read book The Little Book of Cricket Legends written by Ralph Dellor and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with profiles of 30 of the world's most admired and revered cricketers, this book includes key statistics about each player illustrated with action photographs, together with a profile of their career. It features such greats as, W.G. Grace, Denis Compton, Ian Botham, Graham Gooch and Freddie Flintoff.
Download or read book Cricket Legends written by Lunar Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a huge cricket fan? Do you want your child to read more and learn about some of the greatest players of cricket at the same time? Picking the greatest cricketer of all time is an impossible task. Instead, Cricket Legends compiles 20 illustrated biographies of the greatest men and women to ever play cricket and leaves the hard part of deciding up to you! Some of the legends in this book are still playing, while some have passed on. All are deserving of their place on this exclusive list. Cricket Legends combines sport and reading and is the perfect book for children between the ages of 8-14 and all sports fans alike. To get to the top of the game, many of the players in this book had to come through hard times and discrimination. Their stories are inspirational and often so amazing that they read like fiction. Yet they are true, and we hope they will inspire you. What about the boy who played for his local Under-12s and Yeovil Cricket Club in the same week? Or what about the man who played his final first-class match at the age of 66? Cricket Legends is perfect for parents who want to reduce their kids' screen time and encourage them to love both reading and cricket! Maybe you know about some of these legends, or perhaps you're a cricket newbie. Whatever the case may be, we know that you will love learning about these legends of the game! SCROLL UP and learn along with us!
Download or read book The Picador Book of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Tuffers Cricket Hall of Fame written by Phil Tufnell and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Tufnell, cricket legend and national treasure, has populated his very own Cricket Hall of Fame with a deliciously eclectic collection of cricket legends and offbeat characters, with joyful results. From boyhood heroes, to legendary team-mates, to fearsome opponents, to idiosyncratic umpires and broadcasters, Tuffers has gathered together the most enchanting cast of cricketing figures every assembled. And it wouldn't be a Tuffers tome if there weren't a number of captivating appearances from some unexpected quarters, including some genuinely off-the-wall, non-cricketing inductees to keep life interesting in this very personal Hall of Fame. By turns eccentric and warm-hearted, Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame is a joy for all cricket fans.
Download or read book Cricket Odyssey written by Rajgopal Nidamboor and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket Odyssey is a skilfully executed, lovingly constructed, book: a literary celebration of over a century-and-a-half of cricket. It has narrative and character study blended in a dexterously refined, yet readable form. It not only manages to pervade the essential of the essentials of some of cricket’s greatest players — from Dr W G Grace to Steve Waugh; from Sir Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar to Rahul Dravid; from Sir Learie Constantine and Sir Gary Sobers to Jacques Kallis; from Ray Lindwall to Wasim Akram; and, from Clarrie Grimmett to Anil Kumble and Muttiah Muralitharan — but, it also brings to life a classy and effulgent cricketing collage. More than a lively, encapsulated grandeur of individual brilliance, or cricketing chemistry, of each player epitomised in its canvas, Cricket Odyssey explores not only the many-resplendent delights of cricket, but it also delineates a deftly woven work of art — of the game’s scientific foundation, art and grammar, and its players’ phenomenal exploits, acts of courage, grandeur, and ‘shortfall.’ A journey through nostalgia, and a living monument to a living philosophy, it is, in sum, a ‘must-read’ and ‘must-keep’ book for all avid cricket fans across the globe.
Download or read book Legends of Cricket written by Ralph Dellor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fifty of the world's greatest cricket players. This work illustrates profiles with photographs and statistics highlighting their enviable playing record. It also includes legends such as; Ian Botham, Donald Bradman, Denis Compton, Shane Warne, Andrew Flintoff and others.
Download or read book Cricket Legends Book and Dvd Gift Pack written by Ralph Dellor and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Spin written by Shane Warne and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The leg-spinner who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five cricketers of the twentieth century. A sporting idol across the globe. A magnet for the tabloids. But the millions of words written and spoken about Shane Warne since his explosive arrival on the Test cricket scene in 1992 have only scratched the surface. The real story has remained untold.
Download or read book Legendary Indian Cricketers written by Ravi Chaturvedi and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: legendary Indian Cricketers’ follow the form and format of the ragas of Indian classical music. The first phase; which spans over several decades; has the leisurely pace of village life; the second phase; which unfolds over the 1950s and 70s; goes with a simple; measured melodious beat; while the third is a kind of scherzo; where action is compressed into less than a day. All the same the scene; the setting and the structure of the Legendary Indian Cricketers (Men; Moments and Memories) are classically Indian. The echoes and the ethos too have a typical Indian flavour. This book is a must-read for those who are keen to know about the lives of some of the greatest cricketers of India. This book reveals the lives of legendary Indian cricketers from 1950s to 70s, presented in the form and format of the ragas of Indian classical music. The scenes, settings, and structures are classically Indian, and capture the leisurely pace of village life, the simple, measured melodious beat, and the action-packed scherzo. For those interested in the lives of some of the greatest cricketers of India, Legendary Indian Cricketers (Men, Moments and Memories) is a must-read. Legendary Indian Cricketers by Ravi Chaturvedi, Indian cricket, sports biography, cricketing legends, cricket history, sportsmanship, sports heroes, achievements, Indian sports, cricket culture.
Download or read book Lost Voices of Cricket written by Ralph Dellor and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over his long career as a cricket commentator and journalist, Ralph Dellor has met some of the greatest exponents of the "summer" game. In the 1990s he conducted a series of face-to-face taped interviews with famous cricketers past and present. Nine of these extraordinary interviews have now been captured in the written word. Ralph and his fellow sports journalist, Stephen Lamb, have edited and annotated the interviews so they are put into context of time and place. Each chapter is a classic piece of cricketing history, and an insight into the legends and lore of the game.
Download or read book Legends of Cricket written by Rohan Wijesinghe and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of Cricket is a collection of articles created by Rohan Wijesinghe and published in the national media of Sri Lanka over the years. The legends featured in the book have made many notable achievements in their own right and have both inspired and promoted Sri Lanka as a major cricketing nation and have categorically put Sri Lanka on the world map. Also featured are a few International heavy weights who were ardent advocates of Sri Lankan Cricket, and profoundly respected friends of the Sri Lankan nation and its people.
Download or read book The Outside Is Inside written by Joe Moorwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book World Famous 4 Cricketers of This Era written by Jakaria Hossain Jusef and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Famous 4 Cricketers of This Era is an engaging and insightful book that delves into the lives and careers of some of the most remarkable cricketing talents from around the globe [Sakib Al-Hassan, Steven Peter Devereux Smith, Joe Root and Virat Kohli] With a keen eye for detail, Jakaria Hossain Jusef explores the journeys, achievements, and personal stories of these modern cricket legends.
