The Meaning of Cricket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Meaning of Cricket write by Jon Hotten. This book was released on 2016-07-07. The Meaning of Cricket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost 100 miles an hour takes the body and brain to the edges of their capabilities, yet its abiding image is of the gentle village green, and the glorious absurdities of the amateur game. In The Meaning of Cricket, Jon Hotten attempts to understand this fascinating, frustrating and complex sport. Blending legendary players, from Vivian Richards to Mark Ramprakash, Kevin Pietersen to Ricky Ponting, with his own cricketing story, he explores the funny, moving and melancholic impact the game can have on an individual life.
Cricket and the Law
Cricket and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cricket and the Law write by David Fraser. This book was released on 2005. Cricket and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket's defining controversies - bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others - Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket.
Quick as a Cricket
Quick as a Cricket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quick as a Cricket write by Audrey Wood. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Quick as a Cricket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A child describes the feelings and emotions which are the mark of his individual self.
Different Class
Different Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Different Class write by Duncan Stone. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Different Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the Cricket Writers Club 'Book of the Year' 2022 and the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 'Cricket Book of the Year' 2023 In telling the story of cricket from the bottom up, Different Class demonstrates how the "quintessentially English" game has done more to divide, rather than unite, the English. In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning by placing the game in its true social, political and economic context, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s orthodox history that, he argued, had played a key role in the formation of national culture. As a consequence, he failed, and the history of cricket in England has retained the same stresses and lineaments as it did a century ago — until now. In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not simply challenge the widely accepted orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were, under the guise of amateurism, intentionally developed in order to divide the English along class lines at every level of the game. If the creation of opposing class-based cricket cultures in the North and South of England grew out of this process, the institutional structures developed by those in charge of English cricket continue to discriminate. But, as much as the exclusion of Black and South Asian cricketers from the recreational mainstream is the most obvious example, it is social class that remains the greatest barrier to participation in what used to be the national game.
Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond a Boundary write by Cyril Lionel Robert James. This book was released on 1993. Beyond a Boundary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.
