50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Cricket

'For those who fear the worst for the sport they love, this is like cool, clear water for a man dying of thirst. It's barnstorming, coruscating stuff, and as fine a book about the game as you'll read for years' Mail on Sunday 'Charming . . . a threnody for a vanished and possibly mythical England' Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times 'Lyrical . . . [Henderson's] pen is filled with the romantic spirit of the great Neville Cardus . . . This book is an extended love letter, a beautifully written one, to ...

Releasedatum: 2020-04-30 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 69,00 kr

'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday Times As Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was ‘above average at games’. Luckily, he was known at school as ‘a noted athlete, a fine footballer and cricketer [and] a boxer’, and sport inspired much of his earliest writings, as well as some of his very finest and laugh-out-loud funniest. Wodehouse wrote with trademark wit on a rich range of games – and on cri...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-31 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 209,00 kr

The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time. In April 1974 new recruits Viv Richards , Ian Botham , Peter Roebuck and Vic Marks reported for duty at Somerset County Cricket Club . Apart from Richards, 'all of us were eighteen years old, though Botham seemed to have lived a bit longer - or at least more vigorously - than the rest.' In this irresistible memoir of a life lived in cricket, Vic Mark...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-27 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 85,00 kr

Fast bowler, six-hitter, popular hero, one of the lads, king of the jungle - Andrew Flintoff is all of those things. Second Innings , is his searingly honest yet uplifting autobiography, Flintoff reveals unseen, surprising sides to his career and personality. The restless need to push and challenge himself that led him to take up professional boxing. The complex and troubled relationship with discipline, alcohol and authority during his exhilarating cricket career. The search for an authentic vo...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-22 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 49,00 kr

The one-stop guide to the 2015 World Cup Cricket is not just a game, it’s a religion. And every four years, new gods are created on the field. Each World Cup kicks off pitched battles and fan frenzy, with every match, every player and every run being analysed with fervour and recorded with vigour. This essential guide is a companion volume for every cricket-crazy follower who wants the facts, statistics and details about the World Cup right on hand. The Cricket Fanatic’s Essential Guide is j...

Releasedatum: 2015-01-30 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 9,00 kr

The Art of Wicket-keeping is an interactive coaching book with widgets and activities that provide fun and engaging experiences for players and coaches of all ages and abilities. Each widget helps to reduce any larger passages of text with video clips showing top wicket-keepers in action, animations explaining key techniques, eye catching presentations and swipe friendly galleries. The Art of Wicket-keeping is endorsed by England and Leicestershire wicket-keeper Paul Nixon and Durham/Worcestersh...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-01 179,00 kr

Tom Smith first wrote his guide for umpires and scorers in 1980. Since then, his indispensable guide has gone through six fully-revised editions. The 'new' Tom Smith is the first to be fully redesigned and updated for the 21st century. Its publication coincides with international recognition that there should be one universal standard for the training of umpires whatever country they operate in. The 'new' Tom Smith incorporates the full 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket with subsequent amendments...

Releasedatum: 2012-04-05 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 45,00 kr

200 brilliant and bizarre curiosities highlighting the First, Last and Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of this sport - from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century and take all ten wickets in a single innings. This absorbing collection of stories is guaranteed to enthral and includes some of the greatest gentleman to have graced the field of play, such as: The first player to bat on all 5 days of a test match. The...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-04 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 45,00 kr