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John James Lillywhites Cricketers Companion
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Author :Jeremy Lonsdale Publisher :Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ISBN 13 :1908165995 Total Pages :142 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (81 download)
Book Synopsis Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket by : Jeremy Lonsdale
Download or read book Tom Emmett: The Spirit of Yorkshire Cricket written by Jeremy Lonsdale and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Hawke called Tom Emmett ‘the greatest “character” who ever stepped on to the field’. Born in Halifax in 1841, Emmett worked as a mill hand and did not make his Yorkshire debut until 1866. Almost at once he was part of the most destructive fast bowling partnership in England with George Freeman. In the 1860s, he once took 16 wickets for Yorkshire in an afternoon. In the 1870s, only one other player scored over 4,000 runs and took over 400 wickets in English cricket: W.G.Grace. Emmett had his best ever season with the ball in the 1880s, aged nearly 45. In all first-class cricket, he took over 1,500 wickets at under 14, bowling in an idiosyncratic style which included wides and balls ‘which no man had ever seen or dreamed of before’. For three decades, Emmett travelled endlessly to appear in club and county matches, and went to Australia three times in five years, appearing in the first Test match. He set records and won games, but also played in a style which at one time made him ‘the most popular professional in England.’ He pleased cricket followers with his wit and enthusiasm, but his life had a large share of tragedy. How he handled those highs and lows made him the true spirit of Yorkshire cricket.
Download or read book Chess Player's Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Book Synopsis The World's Most Famous Sports Shop Tells the Story of Its First Hundred Years by : Alison Adburgham
Download or read book The World's Most Famous Sports Shop Tells the Story of Its First Hundred Years written by Alison Adburgham and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freemason's Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Bob Harragan Publisher :Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ISBN 13 :1905138784 Total Pages :121 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis C.P. Lewis: The Champion Cricketer of South Wales by : Bob Harragan
Download or read book C.P. Lewis: The Champion Cricketer of South Wales written by Bob Harragan and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Prytherch Lewis (1853-1923), quick bowler and hard hitting batsman, played an important part in the rise of Welsh cricket, despite his background in rural Carmarthenshire, away from big towns and cities. From Llandovery he went on to play for Oxford University, in 1876, at a time when that ancient institution supplied top cricketers, athletes and footballers (in two codes), to the world. He took seven for 35 in his first-ever first-class match, and was one of the first Welshmen to play for Oxford. Returning to Llandovery, he enthused cricketers and rugby players, and built up the College into a formidable sporting force. He himself played for the South Wales Cricket Club, Glamorgan’s predecessor, and represented Wales in several early international rugby matches. Later, he brought his skills as a lawyer to bear on the organisations running those two games. And long after his skills had declined, he ‘turned out’ for Carmarthenshire in Minor Counties championship cricket. Using material from a range of sources, Bob Harragan and Andrew Hignell, two specialists in Welsh cricket history, bring together – for the first time – a full tale of one of the big men in Welsh cricket and rugby.
Author :Giles Phillips Publisher :Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ISBN 13 :1908165154 Total Pages :109 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (81 download)
Book Synopsis Edgar Willsher: The Lion of Kent by : Giles Phillips
Download or read book Edgar Willsher: The Lion of Kent written by Giles Phillips and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred and fifty years ago, on a warm August afternoon, Edgar 'Ned' Willsher (1828-1885), a left-arm quick bowler from Kent playing at The Oval for England against Surrey, was ‘no-balled’ six times in succession. Ned threw down the ball in exasperation, and left the field with his fellow professionals. A compromise was reached. Ned apologized for his quick temper, and the game restarted the following day, without any noticeable change to his bowling style. But the incident put the game’s authorities, who had long failed to enforce the rules consistently, onto the back foot. Ned’s transgression – his hand was higher than his shoulder – led to a change in the Law in 1864 and the legalising of overarm bowling, the biggest-ever single change to the conduct of cricket. Today’s bowlers are still working out new ways of delivering the ball overarm. Willsher himself served his county team loyally for over twenty seasons, taking well over a thousand first-class wickets. He was a regular in the bigger representative matches of his time. In recognition of his status in the game, he captained an England side to North America before such a position was thought to be an amateur prerogative. Poacher turned gamekeeper, he was 'there' when listing first-class umpires started in 1883. Giles Phillips traces the career of a farmer’s son from East Kent as a successful player and umpire and his struggle to make a living off the field of play.
Download or read book Rain Stops Play written by Andrew Hignell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.
Book Synopsis The Making of New Zealand Cricket by : Greg Ryan
Download or read book The Making of New Zealand Cricket written by Greg Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character changed across time. Greg Ryan examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s. He then considers issues such as cricket and social class in the emerging cities; cricket and the elite school system; the function of the game in shaping relations between the New Zealand provinces; cricket encounters with the Australian colonies in the context of an 'Australasian' world. A central theme is cricketing relations with England at a time when New Zealand society was becoming acutely conscious of both its own identity and its place within the British Empire. This imperial relationship reveals structures, ideals and objectives unique to New Zealand. Articulate, engaging and entertaining, Ryan demonstrates convincingly how the cricketing experience of New Zealand was quite different from that of other colonies.
Download or read book The Oracle written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cricket-field by : James Pycroft
Download or read book The Cricket-field written by James Pycroft and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Reminiscences of Cheltenham College by : Paul Ward
Download or read book Reminiscences of Cheltenham College written by Paul Ward and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of Cheltenham College. By an Old Cheltonian (P. W.). by : Paul WARD (pseud.)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Cheltenham College. By an Old Cheltonian (P. W.). written by Paul WARD (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sotheran's Price Current of Literature by : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Catalogue of Books ... by : Sampson Low
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books ... written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amazing Grace by : Richard Tomlinson
Download or read book Amazing Grace written by Richard Tomlinson and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely begun. Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but across the British Empire and beyond. Only W. G. could boast a fan base that stretched from an American Civil War general and the Prince of Wales's mistress to the children who fingered his coat-tails as he walked down the street, just to say 'I touched him'. The public never knew the darker story behind W. G.'s triumphal progress. Accused of avarice, W. G. was married to the daughter of a bankrupt. Disparaged as a simpleton, his subversive mind recast how to play sport - thrillingly hard, pushing the rules, beating his opponents his own way. In Amazing Grace, Richard Tomlinson unearths a life lived so far ahead of his times that W. G. is still misunderstood today. For the first time, Tomlinson delves into long-buried archives in England and Australia to reveal the real W. G: a self-made, self-destructive genius, at odds with the world and himself.
