Chappelli Speaks Out

Author : Ashley Mallett
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741762170
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chappelli Speaks Out written by Ashley Mallett and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews by Ashley Mallett with Ian Chappell, this book presents Ian Chappell's reflections on his career, players he played with and against, and on current and past cricketing issues.

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ISBN 13 : 9781741153538
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Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chappelli Speaks Out written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews by Ashley Mallet with Ian Chappell, this book presents Ian Chappell's reflections on his career, players he played with and against, and on current and past cricketing issues.

Author : Ashley Mallett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459613414
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thommo Speaks Out written by Ashley Mallett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thommo was feared by batsmen all around the world. Sri Lankan Sunil Wettimuny recalls facing one of Thommo's balls: Never before or since that day did I know fear on the cricket field. Mike Brearley, the Middlesex captain who led England during the World Series Cricket incursion, said of Thommo: Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the ...

Author : Barry Nicholls
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1801507805
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Establishment Boys written by Barry Nicholls and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket revolution, this book tells the story of the Australian Test cricketers plucked from the backwaters of the domestic game to take on full-strength international sides. Some became cricketing greats. Others were lost in the footnotes of history. But all have important stories to share. From 1977/78 to the reconciliation, two Australian sides competed in parallel universes: World Series Cricket's glamorous rock star realm and the attritional reality of Test cricket fought by predominantly younger, poorly paid men honouring the baggy green. Friendships were broken, and new bonds formed, as the public first sided with the traditional game before backing World Series Cricket in greater numbers. Kerry Packer eventually won the cricketing war. However, Test cricket survived because of those who carried the Australian banner for the game. These players became known as the 'Establishment Boys' and until now they have barely been acknowledged.

Author : Ashley Mallett
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741760712
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of a Kind written by Ashley Mallett and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doug Walters, one of Australia's most loved cricketing heroes, speaks to Ashley Mallett about cricket and cricketers past and present.

Author : Fred Chappell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807151483
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am One of You Forever written by Fred Chappell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family -- father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives -- who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant joys and sorrows, knowledge and mystery. Jess's father is feisty, restless, and fun-loving. His mother is straitlaced and serious but accepts with grace and good humor the antics of the men of the family, a trait she learned from her own mother. Johnson Gibbs is the orphaned teenager who comes to live with them on their mountain farm. Life on the laurel-covered mountain is isolated and at times difficult, but for Jess it is made rich and remarkable through his relationship with his father and, especially, Johnson Gibbs. Visiting the farm from time to time is a gallery of eccentric relatives who are surely among the most memorable creations in recent fiction. Uncle Luden is a womanizer who left the mountains years ago for a job in California that "paid actual cash money." Uncle Gurton has a spooky way of appearing and disappearing without ever seeming to enter or exit, but it is his flowing beard, which he has apparently never trimmed and which he keeps tucked inside his overalls, that is of most fascination to Jess. Uncle Zeno is a storyteller. With the words "That puts me in mind of..." everyone around knows that he is about to launch into another of his endless tales. Uncle Runkin, who always brings his handmade coffin to sleep in whenever he visits, spends his time carving intricate designs into the coffin and trying to find just the right epitaph for his tombstone. Aunt Samantha Barefoot stops by for a brief spell, too. A country singer and cousin to Jess's grandmother, she is a woman of uncensored speech (Jess learns a lot from her) and honest emotions. Chappell tells the story of all of these characters in a series of chapters that range from fantasy and near farce to pathos. As notable for its lyrical descriptions of the rural settings as for its finely honed vernacular dialogue, I Am One of You Forever shows us a world full of wit and wisdom and the sadness at the heart of things. As one would expect from a poet like Fred Chappell, every line offers its own pleasures and satisfactions.

Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101126
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Warne written by Gideon Haigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb portrait of the most brilliant cricketer of his generation' Mike Atherton Shane Warne dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years - his skill, his fame, his personality, his misadventures. His death in March 2002 rocked Australians, even those who could not tell a leg-break from a leg-pull. But what was it like to watch Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousands international wickets, the incarnation of Aussie audacity and cheek? Gideon Haigh saw it all, still can't quite believe it, but wanted to find a way to explain it. In this classic appreciation of Australia's cricket's greatest figure, who doubled as the nation's best-known man, Haigh relieves the highs, the lows, the fun and the follies. The result is a new way of looking at Warne, at sport and at Australia. 'Bloody brilliant... As good as anything I have read on the game' Guardian Winner of The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year

Author : Ken Piesse
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1760686654
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Ashley Mallett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459603648
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of a Kind written by Ashley Mallett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment he first stepped onto a test pitch, cricket fans around the world were dazzled by Doug Walters' red-blooded strokes, his immaculate timing and his great enjoyment of the game. But they also loved him because he refused to be a star. He drank, he smoked, he loved a punt. The boy from Dungog was one of us. In One of a Kind, the ma...

Author : Ashley Mallett
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743586507
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic of Spin written by Ashley Mallett and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: asters of the art. They include Bill O’Reilly, who Sir Donald Bradman claimed to have been the greatest bowler of his experience; Clarrie Grimmett, arguably the 'father' of spin bowling in Australia; and the greatest spinner of the modern era, Shane Warne. The many other spin bowlers included in the book include Arthur Mailey, Don Blackie, Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, Jack Iverson, Richie Benaud, Jim Higgs, Tim May, Stuart MacGill and Nathan Lyon.  

Spin bowlers in cricket are masters at making the ball loop slowly through the air to confuse batsmen. Legends of the game know the magic combinations of top-spin, side-spin and off-spin necessary to fool the opposition. The Magic of Spin, dissects the various aspects of spin bowling through the stories of the bowlers themselves. In addition it includes the history and evolution of spin bowling: the wrong’un or googly was 'invented' by Bernard (BJT) Bosenquet; Grimmett 'invented' the flipper, the ball Warne in later years bowled so brilliantly; and Bill O’Reilly learned about spin bowling by watching Grimmett like a hawk in Test matches. The batsmen who have played the great spinners through the years will also help to explain the dark art of spinning.

'Spin bowling is magical and to a lot of people [a few batsmen included] a mystery.' – Ian Chappell