The Meaning of Cricket: Or, How to Waste Your Life on an Inconsequential Sport - Softcover

Hotten, Jon

 
9780224100199: The Meaning of Cricket: Or, How to Waste Your Life on an Inconsequential Sport
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022410019X ISBN 13: 9780224100199
Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jon Hotten is the author of four books, including Muscle and The Years of the Locust, and writes the popular cricket blog The Old Batsman. He co-wrote the award-winning documentary Death of a Gentleman, and his collaboration with the former England bowler Simon Jones, The Test, won the Wisden Almanack's Book of the Year award in 2016.

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Verlag
Yellow Jersey
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022410019X
ISBN 13 
9780224100199
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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