Edgar Willsher The Lion Of Kent
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Author | : Giles Phillips |
Publisher | : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1908165154 |
A hundred and fifty years ago, on a warm August afternoon, Edgar 'Ned' Willsher (1828-1885), a left-arm quick bowler from Kent playing at The Oval for England against Surrey, was ‘no-balled’ six times in succession. Ned threw down the ball in exasperation, and left the field with his fellow professionals. A compromise was reached. Ned apologized for his quick temper, and the game restarted the following day, without any noticeable change to his bowling style. But the incident put the game’s authorities, who had long failed to enforce the rules consistently, onto the back foot. Ned’s transgression – his hand was higher than his shoulder – led to a change in the Law in 1864 and the legalising of overarm bowling, the biggest-ever single change to the conduct of cricket. Today’s bowlers are still working out new ways of delivering the ball overarm. Willsher himself served his county team loyally for over twenty seasons, taking well over a thousand first-class wickets. He was a regular in the bigger representative matches of his time. In recognition of his status in the game, he captained an England side to North America before such a position was thought to be an amateur prerogative. Poacher turned gamekeeper, he was 'there' when listing first-class umpires started in 1883. Giles Phillips traces the career of a farmer’s son from East Kent as a successful player and umpire and his struggle to make a living off the field of play.
Author | : John A. Lester |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1512803944 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Edward Verrall Lucas |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1908 |
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Author | : George Robert Canning Baron Harris |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : P. David Sentance |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2006-03-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786420405 |
Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America's sports identity--and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America's aristocrats to a safe haven for America's nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws. Here, the game's unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket's ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America's inner cities.
Author | : Zeeshan Mahmud |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1312167491 |
A collection of essays on cricket collated from various online blogs including ESPNcricinfo.
Author | : Mike Marqusee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1448216699 |
WINNER OF THE LORD ABERDARE LITERARY PRIZE, 1994 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, 1994 Now with a new introduction by Rahul Bhattacharya, Anyone But England is a detailed exploration into the origins of cricket; the romance, cultural identity, hypocrisy, flaws of governance and glory of the game. Mike Marqusee, an American who fell in love with cricket when he moved to the UK in the 1970s, looks at the history of elitism and empire, and how race and class have always been issues in the game. Scrutinising the long saga of South Africa's exclusion from world cricket, Marqusee charts England's collusion with apartheid, and also details an eye-opening account of Pakistan's controversial 'ball-tampering' tour of England, which provoked intense debate amongst cricket fans about the role of both the media and racism in the modern game. Showing that supporting the game does not mean you need be blind to its flaws, Marqusee's passion and enthusiasm for cricket is threaded through every element of Anyone But England.