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A History Of West Indies Cricket

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Author : Michael Manley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

A History Of West Indies Cricket written by Michael Manley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Sports & Recreation categories.

A History of West Indies Cricket has been fully updated, telling the recent story of West Indian cricket in the nineties and at the start of the 21st century. The records sections have also been brought up to date. In 1975, the West Indies became the first winners of the cricket World Cup. Their style of cricket has always been ideal for this type of game; exhilarating, stroke-making batsmen; penetrative, wicket-taking bowlers and dynamic, athletic fielders. The epitome of the team was its captain, Clive Lloyd, a magnificent all-rounder. For 15 years between 1976 and 1991, the West Indies ruled the cricket world in imperious style, winning 62 Test matches and losing just 17. Batsmen of the calibre of Haynes, Greenidge, Richards, Lloyd and Richardson, and bowlers such as Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft, Walsh and Ambrose, struck fear into the hearts and minds of opposing players. In 1994, Brian Lara announced himself in a way like no other. He set world records in both Test and First-class cricket in the same calendar year, taking 375 off the England attack, then flaying an injury-hit Durham county attack for 501 not out for Warwickshire.It was at this point that the old edition was published. The update will highlight the sad demise of West Indian cricket. The accessibility of cable television from the United States has shown youngsters in the Caribbean other sports, ones which offer untold wealth to even those of moderate professional standard. Football too has taken a hold, with Jamaica reaching the World Cup finals in 1998. The year 2000 was a watershed as it saw the Test careers of both Walsh and Ambrose close, thus severing the last links with the heyday of West Indian cricket. History has shown it will rise again.

A History Of West Indies Cricket

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Author : Gordon Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976

A History Of West Indies Cricket written by Gordon Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Social Science categories.

The Development Of West Indies Cricket Vol 2

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Author : Hilary Beckles
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press
Release Date : 1998

The Development Of West Indies Cricket Vol 2 written by Hilary Beckles and has been published by Pluto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

This volume covers the "third rising" of West Indies cricket. As the sport becomes ever more commercialized, large amounts of money have established sponsorship & support systems to give cricketers around the world every possible advantage. Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, & the effect this has had on the game, & the prospect for integrating West Indian nationhood in the twenty-first century.

The Development Of West Indies Cricket Vol 1

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Author : Hilary Beckles
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press
Release Date : 1998

The Development Of West Indies Cricket Vol 1 written by Hilary Beckles and has been published by Pluto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Sports & Recreation categories.

Fire In Babylon

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Author : Simon Lister
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-08-13

Fire In Babylon written by Simon Lister and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West Indies cricket history.' Clive Lloyd Cricket had never been played like this. Cricket had never meant so much. The West Indies had always had brilliant cricketers; it hadn’t always had brilliant cricket teams. But in 1974, a man called Clive Lloyd began to lead a side which would at last throw off the shackles that had hindered the region for centuries. Nowhere else had a game been so closely connected to a people’s past and their future hopes; nowhere else did cricket liberate a people like it did in the Caribbean. For almost two decades, Clive Lloyd and then Vivian Richards led the batsmen and bowlers who changed the way cricket was played and changed the way a whole nation – which existed only on a cricket pitch - saw itself. With their pace like fire and their scorching batting, these sons of cane-cutters and fishermen brought pride to a people which had been stifled by 300 years of slavery, empire and colonialism. Their cricket roused the Caribbean and antagonised the game’s traditionalists. Told by the men who made it happen and the people who watched it unfold, Fire in Babylon is the definitive story of the greatest team that sport has known.

Beyond A Boundary

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Author : C L R James
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-08-28

Beyond A Boundary written by C L R James and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.

'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?