It's Not Cricket It's Not Cricket

It's Not Cricket

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Publisher Description

An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.
Written in the same lively style that won such praise for his W.G. Grace: A Life, Simon Rae's history of cheating will appeal to the cricket fan and general reader alike. Ranging from Thomas White, who notoriously arrived at the crease with a bat the size of the wicket, on through the Bodyline controversy and throwing, sledging, umpire baiting, and the recent disgrace of Hansie Cronje, It's Not Cricket makes us ask whether cricket really ever was the yardstick of all that is true, honest, pure and of good repute.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2012
20 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Faber & Faber
SIZE
7.7
MB

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