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All in a Day's Cricket: an Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing

By Brian , Levison

Book information

Publisher
Constable & Robinson
Year
2012
ISBN
9781780331232, 9781780339061, 1780339062
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
730 kB (747463 bytes)
Pages
715 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to happen - from creating a clearing in a Malaysian jungle to getting to the ground - so includes, alongside writing by players both great and unknown, the perspectives of spectators, umpires, scorers and other unsung heroes of the game. There are contributions from John Arlott, Neville Cardus, C.L.R. James and E.V. Lucas; Marcus Trescothick wr.

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