Download or read book The Professor of Diddling written by Colin Williamson and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Briggs was simply the most popular player Lancashire had ever had; a popularity that spread through the country and indeed the cricketing world. He was a comedian and a joker on and off the field but he suffered from depression. Professional cricketer at the age of 13 years. Played for Lancashire at the age of 16 years 236 days. First bowler to take 100 test wickets. First cricketer to complete a test century and take a test hat-trick; and is the only player to do so in England and Australia test matches. Walk-up (as opposed to a run-up) of 2 steps. Timed at 44 seconds for a 5-ball over. Bowled a record 630 balls in a match in 1897 at Old Trafford. Made 14,002 runs (18.27), 10 centuries, took 259 catches and 2,212 wickets (15.95) in his career. Suffered from epilepsy. Died in Cheadle Royal Lunatic Asylum not long after his 39th birthday.
Download or read book Wisden Cricketers Almanack written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silence Of The Heart written by David Frith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket has an alarming suicide rate. Among international players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports: and there have been numerous instances at other levels of the game. For thirty years, celebrated cricket author David Frith has collected data on this sad subject. Silence of the Heart is his compelling account of over a hundred cricketers - involving top names from the past hundred years - who have taken their own lives, with an explanation of factors that led to their premature deaths. Can the shocking rate of self-destruction among cricketers be reduced? Can those who run the game do something to save its participants from this dreadful fate? These are among the questions addressed within this catalogue of biographies. But the key question is whether cricket itself is to blame for its losses - or is that this summer game attracts people of a melancholic and over-sensitive nature? Stoddart, Shrewsbury, Gimblett, Bairstow, Trott, Iverson, Robertson-Glasgow, Barnes . . . There remains a sense of disbelief that these high-profile cricketers killed themselves. And many more cases are examined in this extraordinary book, which comes crammed with detail, is not devoid of humour, and must rank among the most intricately researched volumes in cricket's extensive library. With a foreword by former England captain Mike Brearley, now a psychotherapist, Silence of the Heart is a startling investigative narrative covering the phenomenon of cricket's unduly high level of suicide.
Download or read book Superstar India written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Shobhaa Dé, with scathing take-offs on everything, from the caste system to male chauvinism, from sex to social pretension . . . in other words, it's all great fun'-Economic Times Watching the preparations for independent India's 60th birthday in 2007, Dé-poised then to enter her own sixth decade-was struck by the thought, 'Surely my life has taken the same trajectory as the country's!' While she reflected on this, many more questions arose: Does India really deserve to congratulate itself? Has it lived up to the early promises it made to its people? Does Dé herself believe in India? In Superstar India, an intimate confession to her readers, Dé answers these questions and discovers a jawan-young-India, ready to find its place in today's world. Witty, passionate and gloriously opinionated, Superstar India celebrates the spirit of a nation that is certainly not about to lose its glow.
Download or read book Batting for the Empire written by Mario Rodrigues and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive Biography Of An Indian Prince And English Cricketer Ranji Is Enshrined In Popular Perception As The Sporting Icon Who Electrified Victorian England And Scored Over 25,000 Runs Without Ever Playing A Christian Stroke . But There Was A Lot More To The Mysterious Prince Of Hindoo And Much Of It Doesn T Quite Fit With The Extant Stereotype Of The Charming, Generous Sportsman, Progressive Ruler And Enlightened Statesman. The Picture That Emerges From This Long-Overdue Political Biography Is That Of Hrh Jekyll And Maharaja Hyde. The Jam Saheb Of Nawanagar Was An Autocrat, An Often-Absentee Landlord Who Was Flayed By The Press For Ruthlessly Squeezing Money Out Of His Subjects For A Lavishly Spendthrift Durbar. He Did Little To Promote Cricket In His Own Country, And Refused To Let His Talented Nephew Duleep Represent India. More Than That, Ranji Fought Tooth And Nail To Preserve The Raj. As An Important Functionary Of The Princely Order And Chancellor Of The Chamber Of Princes, He Played An Influential And Strikingly Reactionary Role In The Period Between The World Wars. Even As An Increasingly Strident Nationalist Movement Challenged The British Across The Subcontinent, Ranji Schemed And Lobbied For The King-Emperor, To Keep India Bound To The Empire. Batting For The Empire Sheds Light On The Contradictions Between The Sussex Skipper And The Gujarati Despot, And Examines The Tangled Relationships Between The Native States, British India And The British. Mario Rodrigues Has Accessed An Enormous Amount Of Material From A Variety Of Sources To Chronicle The Fascinating Life Of A Complex Man Who Occupied Centre Stage In A Complex Era.
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Download or read book Favourite Cricket Yarns Expanded and Updated written by Ken Piesse and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which notable player asked Don Bradman if he 'had anything to do with cricket'? Who told a young Shane Warne to forget bowling and concentrate on his batting? Whose outfield catch is considered the greatest of all? Find out in Favourite Cricket Yarns. Packed full of hilarious (mostly) true stories, fascinating anecdotes, bloopers and stats, this updated edition from Australian sport's master storyteller Ken Piesse will have you laughing out loud. The perfect book for any cricket fan, it covers the biggest names in the game - from The Don, Big Merv and the Chappells to Gilly, Clarke and Smith.
Download or read book Cricket in America 1710 2000 written by P. David Sentance and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America's sports identity--and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America's aristocrats to a safe haven for America's nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws. Here, the game's unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket's ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America's inner cities.
Download or read book The Development of West Indies Cricket Vol 1 written by Hilary Beckles and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the "third rising" of West Indies cricket. As the sport becomes ever more commercialized, large amounts of money have established sponsorship & support systems to give cricketers around the world every possible advantage. Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, & the effect this has had on the game, & the prospect for integrating West Indian nationhood in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Development of West Indies Cricket Vol 2 written by Hilary Beckles and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the "third rising" of West Indies cricket. As the sport becomes ever more commercialized, large amounts of money have established sponsorship & support systems to give cricketers around the world every possible advantage. Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, & the effect this has had on the game, & the prospect for integrating West Indian nationhood in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Sports Studies written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 2424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set examines sport and leisure from a social science viewpoint. The volumes included, originally published between 1984 and 1991 take a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the social, political and cultural roles of sport in today's society. They cover issues as diverse as inequality, nationalism, gender, and commercialisation and engage with a range of academic disciplines including cultural studies, history, politics and sociology.
Download or read book Rockets over Cribden The History of Rawtenstall Cricket Club written by Roger Hindle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Rawtenstll Cricket Club charts its 125 year membership of the Lancashire League. Established in 1886 the club continues to be at the heart of community life in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. The book celebrates the success of the club throughout the decades and features all of the famous professionals that have been associated with the club and many amateurs who have served the club well over decades. The book also highlights social history events within the town and finishes with a series of statistical data and records.
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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism written by Rob Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism is a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the fast-moving and multifaceted world of sports journalism. Encompassing historical and contemporary analysis, and case studies exploring best practice as well as cutting edge themes and issues, the book also represents an impassioned defence of the skill and art of the trained journalist in an era of unmediated digital commentary. With contributions from leading sports-media scholars and practising journalists, the book examines journalism across print, broadcast and digital media, exploring the everyday reality of working as a contemporary reporter, editor or sub-editor. It considers the organisations that shape output, from PR departments to press agencies, as well as the socio-political themes that influence both content and process, such as identity, race and gender. The book also includes interviews with, and biographies of, well-known journalists, as well as case studies looking at the way that some of the biggest names in world sport, from Lance Armstrong to Caster Semenya, have been reported. This is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals working in sports journalism, sports broadcasting, sports marketing and management, or the sociology or history of sport.
Download or read book The Shorter Wisden 2023 written by Lawrence Booth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. The selected writings from the 160th edition contained in this eBook offer trenchant opinion, compelling features and an authoritative voice on the worldwide game. The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2023 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
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