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Author : John Eddowes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140276503
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Language Of Cricket written by John Eddowes and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Booth
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905921
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arm-ball to Zooter written by Lawrence Booth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers have been up to all these years.
Author : John Eddowes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857542707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Language of Cricket written by John Eddowes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ashes of 1981 John Emburey has come round the wicket and got one to pop: although Australian captain Alan Border has tried to play it with soft hands, the ball was dollied to Mike Gatting at short leg who is about to pouch it, watched by Ian Botham and Graham Gooch. These terms and more than 500 others feature in The Language of Cricket, traced from first mentions in the sixteenth century to the language used by today's commentators, writers and aficionados. The history of the game and how it came to England, how the Ashes started, the mysteries of swing and reverse swing, ball-tampering, the bodyline story, bouncing are explained. The reasons behind such laws as lbw and how they are applied are clearly unfolded.
Author : Michael Rundell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198662303
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Cricket written by Michael Rundell and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of cricket is as complex as the game itself--quite a statement, given that Americans are, on the whole, mystified by the sport. But now, anyone wishing to appear literate and informed in the presence of skilled batsmen can turn to The Dictionary of Cricket for an indispensable guide to the language and the game. Readers of this definitive and delightful mixture of history, etymology, and social comment will be able to amaze their friends with astute asides incorporating such terms as "featherbed" (a very easy-paced wicket offering no encouragement to the bowlers and providing favorable batting conditions), "Kookaburra ball" (a hard, resilient type of cricket ball widely used in Australia), and "boot hill" (a very close fielding position in front of the wicket, such as "silly point" or "forward short leg"). Providing full and clear definitions of each item, supported by extensive and entertaining examples of its use, The Dictionary offers coverage of historical and present day cricket terms; quotations from a wide vareity of sources, including newspapers from around the world as far back as the 18th century; technical, historical, and legal information relating to a term; and--invaluable for recent converts--ample line drawings to illustrate key concepts, particularly those relating to rules of play or techniques. Whether or not they know a "googly" from a "yorker," The Dictionary of Cricket will bowl over anyone with an interest in international sport and British culture.
Author : S.S.SHREEKUMAR
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book KARNATAKA CRICKET'S HALL OF FAME AND ITS CORRIDORS in English language written by S.S.SHREEKUMAR and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains profiles and photos of all legendary cricketers from EAS Prasanna, GR Vishwanath, BS Chandrasekhar, Brijesh Patel down to K. L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal who have played for India is all or any two or one of the three formats - Tests, ODIs or T20Is. There are others who have done yeoman service to Karnataka but never got their due. Profiles of some rising stars and also a section on Women's cricketers. It also contains other interesting chapters and records. I have also given the Roll of Honour of major cricket tournaments in the end. It is essentially a book which provides information about Karnataka cricketers in one package. This has not been attempted before and I will be the first to do so.
Author : Ronald W. Mealing
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781463789114
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Language of Cricket written by Ronald W. Mealing and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They said he was "caught in slips" - how embarrassing! Then they said - "no ball" (How were they supposed to play the game with "no ball"?) And after you were told "he made his crease," you asked "Are we into folding origami now"? And finally they told you it was "over" - yet they were still playing - what's going on, here? Strange things can happen in life but the strangest of things seems to be happening in this mystic game of Cricket! In this book I have provided you with a cartoon satire depicting a series of possible explanations of the confusing terminology employed liberally in reporting the conduct of the most cherished of British institutions - "Cricket"
Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494587
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cricket, Public Culture and Postcolonial Society in India written by Souvik Naha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
Author : Anthony Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317158040
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
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 314 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.
Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845137507
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Social History of English Cricket written by Derek Birley and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.
Author : Mark Rowe
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN 13 : 1708165754
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840 written by Mark Rowe and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket has come a long way since players could only travel on foot, or by horse and cart. Some things never change; someone has to bat, someone bowl, someone be captain; everyone has to learn. The game is nothing without cricketers; yet the men (or women) on the field are never the full story, as The Summer Field shows. It includes spectators, journalists, ground-keepers, coaches, umpires, selectors and tea ladies. Nor is it only the story of the greatest players, such as Sydney Barnes and Herbert Sutcliffe; we meet also Will Richards, the Nottingham school-teacher; his friend George Wakerley, the job-hunting club professional; and Freeman Barnardo, of Eton and Cambridge. This history of cricket since the coming of the railways seeks to answer questions, such as: what was it like to play cricket in the past? Who played it, and why did they? And why are the English so obsessed with Australia?
