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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Bradman Albums: 1925-1934
Author: The Bradman Albums Vol 1 1925-1934
Author: Sir Donald BradmanBradman Albums
Author: The Bradman Albums
Author: Bradman Albums ...Don Bradman
Author: Brett HutchinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521823845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This fascinating book takes a different look at Australia's all-time sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman.
The Bradman Albums Vol 2 1935-1949
Author: Sir Donald BradmanBodyline Autopsy
Author: David FrithPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781311935
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In 1932, England’s cricket team, led by the haughty Douglas Jardine, had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen: the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused an outrage that reverberated to the back of the stands and into the highest levels of government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known, was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers. It was also potentially lethal – one bowl fracturing the skull of Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield – and the technique was outlawed in 1934. After the death of Don Bradman in 2001, one of the most controversial events in cricketing history – the Bodyline technique - finally slid out of living memory. Over seventy years on, the 1932-33 Ashes series remains the most notorious in the history of Test cricket between Australia and England. David Frith’s gripping narrative has been acclaimed as the definitive book on the whole saga: superbly researched and replete with anecdotes, Bodyline Autopsy is a masterly anatomy of one of the most remarkable sporting scandals.
The Bradman Albums: 1935-1949
Author: The Bradman Albums
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ISBN: 9781742573458
Category : Cricket players
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
"Sport is such an important part of our national identity that is hardly possible that a sportsperson can come along and transcend the sport they play. But it does happen, every generation or so, someone comes along with skills so finely tuned, that they change the game they play and forever become synonymous with that sport. More than that, their skills and attitudes come to symbolise that sport. For millions of people in Australia and around the world The Don was Australian cricket. Sir Donald Bradman was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased."--Provided by publisher.
Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971
Author: Bruce MurrayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319936085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist ideology of empire, its ‘arrested development’ and the reliance of South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society, and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities, and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their impact.