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• Making Of A Cricketer

Author by: Greg Ryan Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 81 Total Download: 358 File Size: 55,5 Mb Description: 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. Author by: Gideon Haigh Language: en Publisher by: Allen & Unwin Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 42 Total Download: 672 File Size: 42,6 Mb Description: Warwick Armstrong was the W.G. Grace of the antipodes.

A 21 stone mountain of a man, he dominated Australian cricket in the early decades of the 20th century as its outstanding all-rounder, and in 1920-21 led the Australian Test team to the only 5-0 victory in an Ashes series - a historic feat not even Steve Waugh's remarkable 2001 side managed to repeat. Irascible and curmudgeonly, he was also arguably the first cricketer of the modern age. He demanded his full financial worth, played the game to the edge of the laws and sometimes beyond, and even anticipated the phenomenon of match-fixing. When people called him the Big Ship, they meant he was unsinkable. This is a biography of the spiritual forefather of Steve Waugh and his present-day all-conquering Australians, and a literally giant figure in the history of modern cricket. Author by: Suvam Pal Language: en Publisher by: Harper Collins Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 61 Total Download: 943 File Size: 41,5 Mb Description: When he picks up the willow, cricket fans across the world hold their breath.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is not just a cricketer, but an inspirer of dreams, a statistician's delight and a treat for a cricket connoisseur. This book delves into the life of the milestone man, both on and off the field, through quizzes and a slew of factoids and trivia about him. The questions, encompassing various phases of Sachin's life and cricketing career, try to unravel the enigma that is the man and gives a chance to his fans to test their knowledge about their idol. Ranging from his childhood, to his days as a prodigy, to his baptism by fire in international cricket, to the making of the greatest modern-day cricketer and an iconic brand, the book covers a wide spectrum of interesting information and lesser-known facts about India's biggest sporting icon.

Author by: John Hughson Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 90 Total Download: 154 File Size: 43,5 Mb Description: The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the relevant examples discussed. Rather than regarding the historical development of sport as the outcome of passive spectator reception, this work is interested in how sporting cultures have been made and developed over time through the active engagement of its enthusiasts. This is to study the history of sport not only ‘from below’, but also ‘from within’, as a means to understanding the ‘deep relationship’ between sport and people within class contexts – the middle class as well as the working class.

Contestation over the making of sport along axes of race, gender and class are discussed where relevant. A range of cultural writers and theorists are examined in regard to both how their writing can help us understand the making of sport and as to how sport might be located within an overall cultural context – in different places and times. The book will appeal to students and academics within humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology and to those in sport studies programmes interested in the historical, cultural and social aspects of sport.

Making Of A Cricketer

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. Author by: Richard Dawkins Language: en Publisher by: Random House Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 97 Total Download: 596 File Size: 49,5 Mb Description: Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of boarding school in England, to his studies at the University of Oxford’s dynamic Zoology Department, which sparked his radical new vision of Darwinism, The Selfish Gene. Through Dawkins’s honest self-reflection, touching reminiscences and witty anecdotes, we are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins.

Author by: Ravi Chaturvedi Language: en Publisher by: Prabhat Prakashan Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 19 Total Download: 971 File Size: 55,5 Mb Description: Legendary Indian Cricketers’ follow the form and format of the ragas of Indian classical music. The first phase, which spans over several decades, has the leisurely pace of village life; the second phase, which unfolds over the 1950s and 70s, goes with a simple, measured melodious beat; while the third is a kind of scherzo, where action is compressed into less than a day. All the same the scene, the setting and the structure of the Legendary Indian Cricketers (Men, Moments and Memories) are classically Indian. The echoes and the ethos too have a typical Indian flavour. ‘Legendary Indian Cricketers’ is a saga of some of the cricketers who have moulded the game and won acclaim both at home and abroad.

The author has highlighted the contribution of 52 cricketers – ranging from Ranji to Umrigar, from Gavaskar to Sehwag, from Nissar to Srinath, from Pawlankar to Gupte, from Bedi to Harbhajan, from Amar Singh to Kapil, from Navle to Engineer and from Lall Singh to Kaif. The captaincy that spans from Nayudu to Kapil and Ganguly to Dhoni has added to the flavour of the book. Every legendary Indian cricketer is well portrayed and it provides interesting and informative ingredients to this absorbing work of reference. Author by: Ric Sissons Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 77 Total Download: 257 File Size: 44,9 Mb Description: A great depression, worsening Anglo-Australian relations, the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket and politics were publicly seen as part of sport. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the official interpretations of the events, and places them in a unique social and political context.

Author by: Gideon Haigh Language: en Publisher by: Penguin UK Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 26 Total Download: 735 File Size: 42,9 Mb Description: Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records. In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could be. Crowds flocked to his club matches, English supporters cheered him on in Tests, and at his early funeral in 1915 - even amidst the grief of war - mourners choked the streets of Sydney. Trumper lives on, not just as the name of a stand at the SCG, or a park near his former home ground. He lives in an image that captures him mid-stroke: a daring player's graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. Reproduced countless times in cricket books and pavilions around the world, it conjures an era, an attitude - cricket's first imaginings of itself - and encapsulates the timeless beauty of sport like none other.

If Trumper is a legend, George Beldam's 'Jumping Out' has become an icon. But that image has almost paradoxically obscured the story of its subject.

Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Genius he explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. In this inventive, fresh and compelling work of history, Haigh reveals how Trumper, and Beldam's incarnation of his brilliance, are at the intersection of sport and art, history and timelessness, reality and myth.

A time when impressionable adolescents having smashed a rubber ball with make-do bats all over their 20-by-20 yard society ground would run in to watch the Indian cricket team triumph on TV. An era when live cricket cove rage was new, intriguing and something that would leave indelible marks on many minds. This is the backdrop to the first book written on Sachin Tendulkar's formative years by his elder brother and early mentor, Ajit. The picture book, replete with yellowing black-and-white snaps and a simple narrative style, makes interesting reading to learn how 'Sachu of Sahitya Sahawas' in Bandra East became one of cricket's geniuses. And if you're into cricket and Tendulkar, this is the kind of stuff that passes into folklore.

Consider an eight-year-old Sachin listening to elder brothers discussing the merits of front-foot batting. Later, following the older boys out to play cricket, he stuns them with his natural ability to whack the ball clear out of the ground.

School boy Sachin Tendulkar (left) at the netsAnd that's about all. The Making Of A Cricketer is an elder brother's affectionate tribute to his brother who is a prodigy, perhaps discreetly even patting himself on the back for guiding 'Sachu' up the right track. But if you're looking for a personal insight into Sachin's mind - you won't find it here. Yet, there are flickers that linger in the mind's eye.

To learn, for instance, that Sachin's first role model wasn't a cricketer but John McEnroe. To read a touching letter penned by Gavaskar asking him not to be too disappointed at not having bagged the Best Junior Cricketer Award, simply stating that if you look up all the winners, 'one name is missing and that person has not done badly in Test cricket'. To learn that the famed world-record partnership with Vinod Kambli was not premeditated: both batsmen chose to ignore the coach's orders who wanted the innings to close about 250 runs earlier. Most of all, it gives us an intriguing insight into the labyrinth of clubs and tournaments that make up Bombay cricket. For most gifted cricketers, the journey from Shivaji Park to Wankhede Stadium takes almost a decade.

Sachin covered it in five. And this book is a celebration of that separate phase in his life - the transition from a gawky school cricketer to a confident Test player. Yes, perhaps the book could have been meatier, more personal, more incisive.

But it'll do till a better one comes along.