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Not Just Cricket

Author : Pradeep Magazine
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354891179
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Not Just Cricket written by Pradeep Magazine and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha Eminent journalist Pradeep Magazine's memoir is a story of lived, real experiences, of joy, sorrow, fear, loss and hope, and about how an uprooted identity shapes one's attitude towards society and the nation. From the Kashmir of the 1950s to terror-stricken Punjab, from the Mandir-Masjid divide and the impact of Mandal politics to the tragic consequences of the Kashmir situation-Magazine paints a fascinating portrait of modern India. At the core of the book are accounts of some of the most epochal events in India's cricketing history, woven around personal encounters with several well-known cricketers. The author lays bare the vicious machinations that are a staple diet of sports governance and reveals hitherto unknown facts about the frictions and ego clashes that are inevitable in a game that dominates India's sporting discourse. Whether it is cricket that you're keen on, or India's troubled history, Not Just Cricket is a must-read.

The Cricket in Times Square

Author : George Selden
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466863625
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Cricket in Times Square written by George Selden and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.

Beyond a Boundary

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313830
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Boundary written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

This is Cricket

Author : Daniel Melamud
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847868575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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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.

No Spin

Author : Shane Warne
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760899208
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book No Spin written by Shane Warne and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The bowler who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five cricketers of the twentieth century. A sporting idol across the globe and a magnet for the tabloids. But the millions of words written and spoken about Shane Warne since his explosive arrival on the Test cricket scene in 1992 have only scratched the surface. The real story has remained untold. Here, Shane sets the record straight. From his childhood as a budding Aussie Rules footballer in suburban Melbourne, he takes us all the way down the road to his 700th Test wicket. Nothing is off limits.

Deaf Sentence

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101140569
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Deaf Sentence written by David Lodge and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictable-and wayward-behavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with aging and mortality-a classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.

Eye of the Cricket

Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719066
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Cricket written by James Sallis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.

Not Quite Cricket

Author : Pradeep Magazine
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143103226
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Not Quite Cricket written by Pradeep Magazine and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Revealing, In-Depth Account Of The Nexus Between The World S Top Cricketers And Bookmakers. On 17 March 2007, The Much-Fancied Pakistan Team Crashed Out Of The Cricket World Cup After A Surprise Defeat To Minnows Ireland. Even As Disappointed Fans Reacted With Anger And Dismay, Rumour Mills Began Working Overtime, Insinuating The Involvement Of Bookmakers In The Unexpected Result, And Hinting At Match-Fixing. Speculation Reached A Fever Pitch When, The Day After, Pakistan Coach Bob Woolmer Was Found Murdered In His Hotel Room. Sources Alleged That The Hand Of The Subcontinental Betting Mafia Was Behind The Attack On Woolmer, And Pointed To The Billions Of Dollars That May Be At Stake When A Match Is Thrown . This Recent Episode Is Only The Latest In A String Of Incidents Involving The World S Top Cricketers. In Recent Years, The Indian Subcontinent Has Emerged As Perhaps The Most Lucrative Arena In Which World Cricket Is Played, Not Least Because Of The Enormous Sums Wagered On The Outcome Of Every Match. Fired By A Chance Encounter With A Bookie In The Caribbean, Top Indian Cricket Writer Pradeep Magazine Set Himself The Task Of Finding Out Exactly How The Shadowy World Of Betting And Match-Fixing Works. He Interviewed Players, Journalists, Cricketing Officials, And Even Posed As An Informer For A Bookmaker For A While. What Emerged In The Course Of His Inquiry Was A Story Of Divided Loyalties And Carefully Camouflaged Half-Truths, Of Players Who Actively Participated In Match-Fixing And Others Who Colluded With Them. He Found That The Money Trail Snakes Its Way Into Every Part Of The Game In The Subcontinent, And Thence To The World. This New And Revised Edition Of This Best-Selling Book Brings The Shocking Story Of Betting Scams And Match-Fixing In International Cricket Up To The Present, And Indicates How Strong The Bookie Cricketer Ties May Be Even Today.

The Meaning of Cricket

Author : Jon Hotten
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473522390
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Cricket written by Jon Hotten and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 It's Not Just a Hobby It's a Passion

Author : Kj Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781689378826
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Cricket It's Not Just a Hobby It's a Passion written by Kj Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Journal / Diary / Notebook makes an awesome unique gift for Cricket lovers! This journal is 6 x 9 inches in size with 110 blank lined pages for writing down thoughts, notes, ideas, or even sketching.

The Cricket's Serenade

Author : Carolita Blythe
Publisher : Carolita Blythe
ISBN 13 : 1585711837
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Cricket's Serenade written by Carolita Blythe and published by Carolita Blythe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souci Alexander, a poor young woman from the mountainous interior of Jamaica, agrees to a platonic marriage to Lewis Montrose, a politician who needs her to further his career and his chances at winning the election. Souci initially enjoys her new luxurious lifestyle, but her feelings change from exhilaration to anxiety when just as she develops real feelings for her husband, she discovers his dark and violent past--one he never intended to be revealed.

Beyond C. L. R. James

Author : John Nauright
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286493
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Beyond C. L. R. James written by John Nauright and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that analyze the interconnections between race, ethnicity, and sport.

Sport and Secessionism

Author : Mariann Vaczi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000215652
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Sport and Secessionism written by Mariann Vaczi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world. Investigating a wide range of cases, the book explores key themes including nationalism, nation building, state-region antagonisms, independence movements, identity and ethnic politics, sovereignty and autonomy processes, all through the lens of sport. Sports are uniquely positioned to shed light on secessionist politics due to their pervasiveness in society, and their ability to absorb, reflect and produce political projections. The book presents analyses of a wide range of geographical, cultural and political contexts in which sports are deployed to pursue regional independence, or greater sovereignty and autonomy, and explores the dual processes of sub-national identity construction and state sovereignty deconstruction. The book includes fourteen cases from such diverse parts of the world as Ireland, Taiwan, Turkey, Catalonia, Biafra, Canada and the UK, among others. Offering a unique perspective on an important geopolitical issue, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport and politics, the sociology of sport, political science, political geography, nationalism studies or international history.

The Sport Business Future

Author : A. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230513697
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Sport Business Future written by A. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sport Business Future examines the impact of powerful changes on the business of sport, including human-computer interfaces, gene therapy and artificial intelligence. It focuses upon probable future trends, including the athlete of the future, corporate sport citizenship and environmentally friendly 'green' sport. The Sport Business Future , written by experts in the area, is a contentious but influential contribution to debates about sport, business and society in the future.

Cricket Ball

Author : Gary Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350014591
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Cricket Ball written by Gary Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No object encapsulates the subtle, mysterious richness of cricket as much as its most famous character, the cricket ball: the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game. Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises: new ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball, no-ball, lost ball, swing ball and dot ball. He untangles the complexities of spin bowling (with a little help from Shane Warne), the tricks and cheats involved in ball tampering (including a look at the 2018 Australian scandal) and explores the multi-coloured future of a rapidly changing game. A kaleidoscopic look at the ball through the lenses of everything from philosophy and science to history, politics and biography and the myriad facts and figures of the vast cricket universe, Cox brings you a brimming biography of this legendary leathern orb and the heroes, fools and villains it has created along the way.

Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Author : Todd Cleveland
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446967
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Sports in Africa, Past and Present written by Todd Cleveland and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa’s dynamic place in the world. Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of “civilizing” indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and “muscular Christianity,” Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya’s world-class long-distance runners, pitches and stadiums in communities large and small, fandom and pay-to-watch kiosks, the sporting diaspora, sports pedagogy, sports as resistance and as a means to forge identity, sports heritage, the impact of politics on sports, and sporting biography.

More than Cricket and Football

Author : Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809912
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book More than Cricket and Football written by Joel Nathan Rosen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Sean Bell, Benn L. Bongang, Joel S. Franks, Silvana Vilodre Goellner, Annette R. Hofmann, Dong Jinxia, Cláudia Samuel Kessler, Jack Lule, Li Luyang, Mark Panek, Roberta J. Park, Gamage Harsha Perera, Joel Nathan Rosen, Viral Shah, Maureen M. Smith, Nancy E. Spencer, Dominic Standish, Tim B. Swartz, Dan Travis, Theresa Walton-Fisette, and Zhong Yijing Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport’s international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star’s own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport’s most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.