Download or read book Wicket Season written by Gabrielle Prendergast and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Winnipeg, Harry was a cricket star. With few West Indians in the community and few people who played the sport, he always stood out from the crowd. But when he moves to Toronto's Little Jamaica to stay with his grandfather, Harry is suddenly just another West Indian kid who loves cricket. There are even girls who are more talented than him. Harry is determined to make the cricket team at his new school, but he'll really have to step up his game. To prove his commitment to the sport, he volunteers to coach Kanga cricket -- cricket for beginners, akin to little league baseball. At first, all he wants to do is impress the coach. But soon, Harry realizes that being a part of a bigger community can be more rewarding than standing out on your own.

Download or read book Wicket Season written by Gabrielle Prendergast and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He'll do whatever it takes to make the school cricket team -- even if it means stepping out of the spotlight

Download or read book The Boy s Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Wicket written by Nigel McCrery and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.

Download or read book Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1873 written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published in 1864, and a new edition has been published every year since then. While limited-edition reprints of every edition of Wisden from 1864 to 1946 have been published over the past few decades, collecting these limited-edition reprints is not cheap as each one has normally been priced between £50 and £100. Now, for the first time, John Wisden & Co is offering a digital version of the 1866 edition, to allow cricket lovers more affordable access to this historic book which forms such a significant part of the game's great heritage.

Download or read book The Shorter Wisden 2021 written by Lawrence Booth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2021 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, and all the front-of-book articles. In an age of snap judgments, Wisden's authority and integrity are more important than ever. Yet again this year's edition is truly a “must-have” for every cricket fan. In essence, The Shorter Wisden is a glass of the finest champagne rather than the whole bottle. @WisdenAlmanack

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by Tresham Gilbey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alec Watson Chucker written by Duncan McLeish and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been doubts raised about certain features of Alec Watson’s (1844-1920) life story. Firstly, about the date and place of his birth, investigation into the former confirmed the date generally accepted, but enquiries into the latter threw up a number of problems. The author’s enquiries suggest a place of birth not even mentioned before. Secondly, there were certainly doubts about the legality of Watson’s bowling action: was he a ‘chucker’? The author considers the arguments and sources about this and suggests what he hopes is a fair conclusion. There were no doubts about Watson’s success; the facts and figures contained herein speak for themselves. Nor is there any doubt about his successful career on the fringes of cricket: as groundsman at Old Trafford; as a cricket coach to clubs and schools; and as a progressive sports outfitter with three shops in central Manchester and a big house on its outskirts. Truly a Life in Cricket!

Download or read book Routledge s sporting annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fry s Magazine written by Charles Burgess Fry and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Cricket written by N. S. Ramaswami and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1976 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Badminton Magazine of Sports Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Last Wicket Stand written by Richard Clarke and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Wicket Stand is an honest account of one man's search for meaning, purpose and reinvention, both for himself and the sport he loves. At the start of the 2020 season, English county cricket faced radical change. The Hundred was coming, introducing new 'franchises' playing a new format in the hope of attracting much-needed new audiences. Its inception was controversial. Advocates argued only drastic action could halt the decline of cricket in the UK. Opponents feared it would undermine the very fabric of the much-loved county game. One devoted Essex fan set out to document the last summer before the big change. He toured the country in 2019 chronicling this often-ignored sport, from the gentle lullaby of the County Championship to the bawdy singalong of T20 Finals Day. Richard Clarke was in his 50th year, at a personal crossroads and fearing his best days may be long gone. Change vs tradition, growth vs security, money vs meaning - these perennial struggles lie at the heart of this absorbing and revealing journey of redemption.

Download or read book Cricket Grounds written by Roger D. C. Evans and published by STRI. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of cricket groundsmanship, this text sets the maintenance of modern cricket grounds in historical context by a survey of the groundsman's art since the 1600s. The work details the history of groundsmanship either side of World War II, looking at the modern role of agronomists and other scientists in the study of cricket surfaces. Subsequent topics include: the assessment of an existing table; pitch preparation; mechanized maintenance operations; fertilizer and top dressing; weed, moss, worm and pest control; renovation and repair; and care of the outfield. A chapter is devoted to the planning and construction of new grounds.