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 598 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 Understanding Cricket written by Tavin D. Spicer and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The joy of cricket lies in its details - the swing of the ball, the stroke of the bat, the sprint across the pitch." Discover the intricacies of cricket, a sport that's cherished worldwide, in the book "Understanding Cricket: A Guide to Playing, Watching, and Enjoying the Sport." This comprehensive guide serves as a perfect companion whether you're new to the sport or have been a cricket enthusiast for years. Start with a dive into the history and fundamental rules of the sport, learning about the equipment, field layout, and terminology essential for comprehending cricket. Immerse yourself in detailed sections about the techniques, strategies, and drills for batting, bowling, and fielding. Each section comprehensively covers a range of styles and tips for both beginners and experienced players. Discover the different formats of cricket like Test, ODI, and T20, and get familiar with major international competitions. Gain a deeper understanding of cricket strategy, skills development, umpiring, and coaching techniques. Learn to appreciate the sport as a spectator, with insights on how to watch cricket on TV, enjoy live events, and understand the passionate fan culture and traditions. The book also explores the influence of cricket on culture, discussing its role in various societies, iconic players, and even controversies that have shaped the game. Witness the impact of cricket on communities, from local clubs to international teams, and understand the importance of promoting the sport among youth. Aspiring players will find value in the guide to getting involved in cricket, with tips on joining local teams, participating in leagues, and opportunities for volunteering and leadership in cricket communities. "Understanding Cricket" ultimately encourages readers to delve into this captivating sport, either as players, spectators, or ardent fans. This guide is more than a book; it's a celebration of cricket. So, step onto the pitch, grab your copy, and start your journey into the fascinating world of cricket. Whether you’re a curious newcomer or a seasoned veteran, this book will deepen your love for the sport.Table of contents: Introduction What is cricket? Brief history of cricket Overview of the sport Understanding the Basics of Cricket Cricket equipment and field Cricket rules and gameplay Scoring and terminology Playing Cricket: Batting Batting technique and stance Types of cricket shots Strategies for scoring runs Playing Cricket: Bowling Bowling technique and delivery Types of bowling styles Strategies for taking wickets Playing Cricket: Fielding Fielding positions and roles Catching and throwing techniques Strategies for stopping runs Cricket Formats and Competitions Test cricket One Day International (ODI) cricket Twenty20 (T20) cricket Major international competitions Understanding Cricket Strategy Batting strategy Bowling strategy Fielding strategy Team strategy Cricket Skills Development Batting drills and exercises Bowling drills and exercises Fielding drills and exercises Fitness and conditioning for cricket Umpiring and Officiating in Cricket Cricket umpiring rules and requirements Types of cricket umpires Scorekeeping and officiating duties Coaching and Training in Cricket Coaching techniques and methods Player development and progress Building successful cricket teams Watching Cricket: TV and Live Events How to watch cricket on TV Attending live cricket events Cricket fan culture and traditions Cricket and Culture The role of cricket in different cultures Famous cricket players and teams Cricket controversies and scandals Cricket and Community The impact of cricket on local communities Building cricket clubs and teams Promoting cricket among youth Getting Involved in Cricket Joining a local cricket team or club Participating in cricket leagues and events Opportunities for cricket volunteerism and leadership Conclusion Recap of key takeaways Encouragement to play, watch, and enjoy cricket ISBN: 9781776848133

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 This is Cricket written by Daniel Melamud and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR award and the TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR, this book is a celebration of the elegance and timeless beauty of cricket—its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today’s stars, along with its idyllic and hallowed grounds. Cricket has been played for over three hundred years and in some ways remains largely unchanged. It is this timelessness, and the style and spirit in which the game is conducted, which is celebrated in This Is Cricket. The book brings together such idyllic settings as Sir Paul Getty's Ground in Buckinghamshire, U.K., surrounded by rolling countryside, with the Otago cricket ground in New Zealand set against a backdrop of mountains, as well as the sport's most hallowed pitches, including Lord's (opened by Thomas Lord in 1814) and Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted the first-ever International "Test" match in 1877. Readers will venture on a journey to the Caribbean, where the fast bowling attack of the West Indies reigned in the 1970s, and to India, where cricket soared to new heights in the 1980s. From Shane Warne's hat-trick at the MCG in 1994 to Ben Stokes's heroics at Lord's and Headingley in 2019, This Is Cricket captures many of the game's most extraordinary events and players. The striking images of on-field action as well as candid dressing-room moments, some published here for the first time, are taken by some of the most respected photographers in sport. Featuring bucolic village greens, charming pavilions, endearing team portraits, extraordinary catches, devastating bowling, heroic batting, stylish sweaters, and silly fancy dress, this book illustrates why cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and why it is truly loved by so many.

Download or read book European Heroes written by Pierre Lanfranchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.

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 Cricket and Globalization written by Stephen Wagg and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket has changed dramatically in recent years and now can claim to be a truly global game, thanks in large part to new media technologies which bring a global audience for World Cups and other major competitions. However, the globalization of cricket has not followed a pattern familiar in other sports: concentrations of wealth, media, and marketing leading to the domination of Western countries over the rest, and this fact alone makes it interesting for scholars of the globalization of sport. Cricket has followed a very different global path; the non-Western countries (former British colonies) have begun to dominate and have taken control of the economics and politics of the game. In short, cricket has been “Indianized”. The globalization of cricket has received a massive boost from the popularity of the newest form of the game (Twenty20) which is helping promote cricket as a mass TV sport. The rise of Twenty20, particularly the Indian Premier League (IPL), is transforming the way cricket is organized, played, and watched all over the world. This development both reinforces the globalization of cricket and also underlines that the “movers and shakers” within cricket are no longer the traditional elites in metropolitan centres but the businessmen of India and the media entrepreneurs world-wide who seek to shape new audiences for the game and create new marketing opportunities on a global scale.

Download or read book Cricket Literature and Culture written by Anthony Bateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cricket written by Anthony Bateman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few other team sports can equal the global reach of cricket. Rich in history and tradition, it is both quintessentially English and expansively international, a game that has evolved and changed dramatically in recent times. Demonstrating how the history of cricket and its international popularity is entwined with British imperial expansion, this book examines the social and political impact of the game in a variety of cultural sites: the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. An international team of contributors explores the enduring influence of cricket on English identity, examines why cricket has seized the imagination of so many literary figures and provides profiles of iconic players including Bradman, Lara and Tendulkar. Presenting a global panoramic view of cricket's complicated development, its unique adaptability and its political and sporting controversies, the book provides a rich insight into a unique sporting and cultural heritage.

Download or read book Cricketing Cultures in Conflict written by Boria Majumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations, with particular reference to the Cricket World Cup.

Download or read book Cricketing Lives written by Richard H. Thomas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As famous for its complicated rules as it is for its contentious (and lengthy) matches, cricket is the quintessentially English sport. Or is it? From cricket in literature to sticky wickets, Cricketing Lives is a paean to the quirky characters and global phenomenon that are cricket. Cricket is defined by the characters who have played it, watched it, reported it, ruled upon it, ruined it, and rejoiced in it. Humorous and deeply affectionate, Cricketing Lives tells the story of the world’s greatest and most incomprehensible game through those who have shaped it, from the rustic contests of eighteenth-century England to the spectacle of the Indian Premier League. It’s about W. G. Grace and his eye to his wallet; the invincible Viv Richards; and Sarah Taylor, “the best wicketkeeper in the world.” Richard H. Thomas steers a course through the despair of war, tactical controversies, and internecine politics, to reveal how cricket has always warmed our hearts as nothing else can.

Download or read book The Cultural Bond written by J.A. Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at various times and in various places imperial unity, national identity, social reform, recreational development and post-imperial goodwill.

Download or read book Sporting Sounds written by Anthony Bateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Sounds presents an eclectic collection of essays, all of which are concerned with various relationships between sport and music. This unique book includes a range of international case studies, examines the use of music as a motivational aid for players, and the historical roots of music in sport.

Download or read book Explore Barbados written by Harry S. Pariser and published by Harry S. Pariser. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with award-winning author Harry S, Pariser around Barbados and delve into its culinary, cultural and historical treasures. Famed for its beaches and intimate, high quality hotels and inns, Barbados is the Southern Caribbean's crown jewel. This is the only complete guide for this very special Caribbean democracy. Visit plantation-era greathouses, stroll through the Flower Forest and exotic Andromeda Gardens, descend into the depths of Harrison's Cave, fly over the island's dramatic contours by helicopter, take a sunset cruise, descend into the oceanic depths via submarine, or just kick back on one of the island's many spectacular beaches. Local bus service, festivals and events, history and culture, live music spots. It's all covered! Maps, photographs, web sites, useful tips. Humourous, informative, educational, detailed. There is no other guide quite like it!

Download or read book Social Science Term 2 written by Dr Malti Malik, Dinesh Bhatt, D R Khullar, Dr S K Jha, Anita Jain, Mala Aggarwal and published by New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on social science

Download or read book We The Oodles written by Atul Kumar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago, the International Cricket Council and the world were told with irrefutable logic and mathematical proof that cricket was institutionally fixed. The authorities and others slept. A few years ago this was vindicated even through judicial process in the top Court of India. Everyone still remained in deep slumber. A key insider said this year that all cricket matches we see were fixed, akin to movies directed by someone else. Tippers openly announce same on social media round the clock. Yet, no one is concerned. What does it mean and how serious are the implications— financial, political, and social? Atul Kumar contemplates hard and deep, recounting his tumultuous odyssey, straight from the heart, with no holds barred. Recent global catastrophe from Corona virus curiously and sorely connects. Finally, here is a copy that will confound the learned readers many times over. Supported by the recorded account, it unravels all around camouflage; leading us to a new cherished order. An explosive work of distilled sagacity to mesmerise everyone across borders, religions, professions, genders, and generations. A must read for one and all. "We The Oodles" by Atul Kumar: Atul Kumar's book is likely a work of fiction or literature that explores the lives, experiences, or stories of a group of individuals or a community referred to as "Oodles." It may involve themes related to identity and belonging. Key Aspects of the Book "We The Oodles": Character Exploration: The book may delve into the lives and experiences of the "Oodles" community, providing insights into their identities and struggles. Community Dynamics: Atul Kumar likely explores the dynamics within the "Oodles" community and their interactions with the larger society. Themes of Belonging: "We The Oodles" may touch upon themes of identity, belonging, and cultural diversity. The meta biography for Atul Kumar is not provided; however, he is likely the author of this work of fiction or literature.

Download or read book Marxist Thought in South Asia written by Kristin Plys and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory demonstrates how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.