Cricket In The First World War
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Wisden On The Great War
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Author : Andrew Renshaw
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-08-12
Wisden On The Great War written by Andrew Renshaw and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A lasting memorial to those from the cricketing world who fought and those who fell.
A Game Sustained The Impact Of The First World War On Cricket In Yorkshire 1914 20
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Author : Jeremy Lonsdale
language : en
Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Release Date : 2019-05-01
A Game Sustained The Impact Of The First World War On Cricket In Yorkshire 1914 20 written by Jeremy Lonsdale and has been published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Over two million British men were injured or killed in the First World War. Millions more people supported the war effort at home – in factories, fields or by keeping essential services going. In these circumstances, how could something as trivial as cricket continue? For some, it was not acceptable; for others, watching or playing sport were reasonable responses to government calls to ‘carry on’. A Game Sustained examines what happened to cricket at all levels in Yorkshire between 1914 and 1918; how it kept going with so many men away; how its top league managed to attract players such as Hobbs, Barnes and Woolley; and how, when peace came, cricket resumed its place in county life in 1919 and 1920. It is a story of divided opinions and of guilt and uncertainty about the correct way to behave. It is also the story of efforts to sustain traditions and to keep some sense of normality at a time of crisis.
Cricket In The First World War Play Up Play The Game
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Author : John Broom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Cricket In The First World War Play Up Play The Game written by John Broom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with History categories.
As Europe descended into war over the summer of 1914, cricket in England continued as it had for the preceding few decades. Counties continued with their championship program, clubs in the North and Midlands maintained their league and cup rivalries while less competitive clubs elsewhere enjoyed friendly matches. However, voices were soon raised in criticism of this 'business as usual' approach - most notably that of cricket's Grand Old Man, W.G. Grace. Names became absent from first-class and club scorecards as players left for military service and by the end of the year it was clear that 1915's cricket season would be very different.And so it would continue for four summers. Rolls of honor lengthened as did the grim lists of cricket's dead and maimed. Some club cricket did continue in wartime Britain, often amidst bitter disputes as to its appropriateness. Charity matches were organized to align the game with the national war effort.As the British Empire rallied behind the mother country, so cricket around the world became restricted and players from far and wide joined the sad ranks of sacrifice.Cricket emerged into the post-war world initially unsure of itself but the efforts that had been made to sustain the game's infrastructure during the conflict ensured that it would experience a second golden age between the wars.
The Coming Storm
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Author : Nigel McCrery
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-07-30
The Coming Storm written by Nigel McCrery and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps pitched again?As the West Indies touring team canceled their last five matches and sailed home before the U-boat threat developed, the treasures at Lords, including the Ashes, were sent to a secret location for safekeeping. The Marylebone Cricket Club cancelled its tour to India - England played under the MCC banner then.During the ensuing conflict twelve test cricketers (five English, two South Africans, one Australian and one New Zealander) perished together with 130 first class players. In this superbly researched sequel to Final Wicket, covering cricketing fatalities during The Great War, this book reveals each mans career details, including cricketing statistics, and the circumstances of death. There is also a brief history of the game during the War. Arguably the period between the two world wars was the golden age of cricket, and this book honors those who made it so only to die serving their countries in a different way.
Final Wicket
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Author : Nigel McCrery
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-07-30
Final Wicket written by Nigel McCrery and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with History categories.
While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.
The Final Over
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Author : Christopher Sandford
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04
The Final Over written by Christopher Sandford and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with History categories.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket category). August 1914 brought an end to the 'Golden Age' of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom thirty-four were killed. However, that period and those men were far more than merely statistics: here we follow in intimate detail not only the cricketers of that fateful last summer before the war, but also the simple pleasures and daily struggles of their family lives and the whole fabric of English social life as it existed on the eve of that cataclysm: the First World War. With unprecedented access to personal and war diaries, and other papers, Sandford expertly recounts the stories of such greats as Hon. Lionel Tennyson, as he moves virtually overnight from the round of Chelsea and Mayfair parties into the front line at the Marne; the violin-playing bowler Colin Blythe, who asked to be moved up to a front-line unit at Passchendaele, following the death in action of his brother, with tragic consequences; and the widely popular Hampshire amateur player Robert Jesson, whose sometimes comic, frequently horrific and always enthralling experiences of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign are vividly brought to life. The Final Over is undoubtedly a gripping, moving and fully human account of this most poignant summer of the twentieth century, both on and off the field of play.
Front Foot To Front Line
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Author : ANDREW. HIGNELL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-06
Front Foot To Front Line written by ANDREW. HIGNELL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with categories.
Front Foot to Front Line commemorates Welsh cricket's contribution to the Great War by chronicling the lives of 55 professional and amateur cricketers who left the friendly rivalry of the crease for the brutality and horror of the trenches, and lost their lives as servicemen on the bloody battlefields of Europe. Includes 93 black-and-white photographs.
A Torch In Flame
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Author : Peter Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-28
A Torch In Flame written by Peter Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with categories.
Cricket In The Second World War
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Author : John Broom
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2021-07-07
Cricket In The Second World War written by John Broom and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.
As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that ‘England has now started the grim Test Match with Germany’, the objective of which was to ‘win the Ashes of civilisation’. Despite the interruption of first-class and Test cricket in England, the game continued to be played and watched by hundreds of thousands of people engaged in military and civilian service. In workplaces, cricket clubs, and military establishments, as well as on the famous grounds of the country, players of all abilities kept the sporting flag flying to sustain morale. Matches raised vast sums for war charities whilst in the north and midlands, competitive League cricket continued, with many Test and county players being employed as weekend professionals by the clubs. Further afield the game continued in all the Test-playing nations and in further-flung outposts around the world. Troops stationed in Europe, Africa and the Far East seized on any opportunity to play cricket, often in the most unusual of circumstances. Luxurious sporting clubs in Egypt hosted matches that pitted English service teams against their Commonwealth counterparts. Luminaries such as Wally Hammond and Lindsay Hassett were cheered on by their uniformed countrymen. Inevitably there was a sombre side to cricket’s wartime account. From renowned Test stars such as Hedley Verity to the keen but modest club player, many cricketers paid the ultimate price for Allied victory. The Victory Tests of 1945 were played against a backdrop of relief and sorrow. Nevertheless, cricket would emerge intact into the post-war world in broadly the same format as 1939. The game had sustained its soul and played its part in the sad but necessary victory of the Grim Test.
The Cricket War
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Author : Gideon Haigh
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2007
The Cricket War written by Gideon Haigh and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Cricket categories.
In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a 39-year-old businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised World Series Cricket. The Cricket War, now published with a new introduction and afterword, is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white balls and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms, Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves. A compelling account of top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the tycoon who became Australia's richest man.