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Author: Brian Levison Publisher: Pavilion ISBN: 9781911216056 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds. From a tidal strip of sand outside the Ship Inn at Elie, in Fife, to the monumental Melbourne Cricket Ground with its 100,000 capacity, this book features the extraordinary places and venues in which cricket is played. Many grounds have remarkably beautiful settings. There is the rugged Devonian charm of Lynton and Lynmouth Cricket Club set in the Valley of the Rocks, not far from the North Devon coast. Then there is the vividly-coloured, almost Lego-like structure of Dharamshala pavilion in Northern India where local resident the Dalai Lama has watched a match. Many of England’s greatest players have come from public schools, and there are some wonderful examples of their cricket grounds such as Sedbergh and Milton Abbey. Country houses such as Audley End and Blenheim Palace form the backdrop to many cricket pitches, or castles, such as Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, or even Portchester Castle, where there is a cricket ground inside the castle walls. Sri Lanka’s test ground, Galle, has a fort looming above it, while Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, has the unmistakeable Table Mountain as the backdrop. Some of the stunning imagery has a modern feel. Queenstown cricket ground has international jets taking off just yards from the playing action, while Singapore Cricket Club is an oasis of lush green set against a 21st century array of high-rise towers. Then there are cricket grounds in unusual places; Hawaii, Corfu, Berlin, Slovenia and St Moritz to name but a few.
Author: Brian Levison Publisher: Pavilion ISBN: 9781911216056 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds. From a tidal strip of sand outside the Ship Inn at Elie, in Fife, to the monumental Melbourne Cricket Ground with its 100,000 capacity, this book features the extraordinary places and venues in which cricket is played. Many grounds have remarkably beautiful settings. There is the rugged Devonian charm of Lynton and Lynmouth Cricket Club set in the Valley of the Rocks, not far from the North Devon coast. Then there is the vividly-coloured, almost Lego-like structure of Dharamshala pavilion in Northern India where local resident the Dalai Lama has watched a match. Many of England’s greatest players have come from public schools, and there are some wonderful examples of their cricket grounds such as Sedbergh and Milton Abbey. Country houses such as Audley End and Blenheim Palace form the backdrop to many cricket pitches, or castles, such as Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, or even Portchester Castle, where there is a cricket ground inside the castle walls. Sri Lanka’s test ground, Galle, has a fort looming above it, while Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, has the unmistakeable Table Mountain as the backdrop. Some of the stunning imagery has a modern feel. Queenstown cricket ground has international jets taking off just yards from the playing action, while Singapore Cricket Club is an oasis of lush green set against a 21st century array of high-rise towers. Then there are cricket grounds in unusual places; Hawaii, Corfu, Berlin, Slovenia and St Moritz to name but a few.
Author: Richard Whitehead Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008618240 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 382
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From the history-steeped ‘home of cricket’ at Lord’s, to the mecca of Indian cricket at Eden Gardens, this encompassing guide ranges across five continents to bring you the best cricket venues the world has to offer.
Author: Michael Heatley Publisher: Compendium Books ISBN: 9781905573011 Category : Cricket grounds Languages : en Pages : 192
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This panoramic book celebrates the major Test cricket arenas all around the globe, wherever cricket's great battles are fought. Some of these grounds are over 100 years old - Lord's saw its first match in 1814 - although the spectators of that period would recognise little, if anything, of the area or the ground today. Each of the grounds has unique attributes and charm - and each illustration here provides a distinctive and colourful vantage point.
Author: Brian Levison Publisher: Pavilion ISBN: 9781911595564 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Following the success of Remarkable Cricket Grounds, author Brian Levison focuses his attention on the amazing variety of grassroots cricket venues throughout the British Isles. In the original book he covered some of the largest stadia where cricket is played throughout the world. In Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds he concentrates on the smallest. The inventory of beautiful and atmospheric grounds includes those played by the seaside, at the edge of moorland, in front of grand country houses or on wind-blasted hillsides. Village cricket is played next to windmills, thatched cottages, trout streams, in the heart of Cotswold stone hamlets, and on many of the country's verdant village greens. There are some classic cricketing pubs included along with lavish teas, ancient pitch rollers, equally ancient club secretaries and a variety of warning signs for those wishing to park their car within slogging distance. Almost all of the venues are located in the kind of set-piece British landscape that will have the tourist boards begging for copies. It is a treasury of British life featuring clubs from: Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Essex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Northumberland, Leicestershire, Wales and Scotland.
Author: Source Wikipedia Publisher: University-Press.org ISBN: 9781230517087 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Brabourne Stadium, List of international cricket centuries at Eden Gardens, List of international cricket centuries at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, List of international cricket centuries at the Feroz Shah Kotla, List of international cricket centuries at Brabourne Stadium, List of international cricket centuries at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi, DY Patil Stadium, Pune International Cricket Centre, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Fatorda Stadium, Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Cricket grounds in Andhra Pradesh, Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Bombay Gymkhana, Nahar Singh Stadium, Nehru Stadium, Pune, ACA-VDCA Stadium, HPCA Stadium, List of cricket grounds in India, Moti Bagh Stadium, Narangi, Raipur International Cricket Stadium, Keenan Stadium, Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Nehru Stadium, Indore, Roop Singh Stadium, Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Kerala Cricket Association Stadium, Holkar Cricket Stadium, IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Bilakhiya Stadium, Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Greater Noida Cricket Stadium, Jayanti Stadium, University Stadium, Dadaji Kondadev Stadium, Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, Pune Club Ground, Thalassery Stadium, Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Valsad, Indira Gandhi Stadium, Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, Harbax Singh Stadium, Jamia Millia Islamia University Ground, Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Dr R Prasad Stadium, Fort Maidan. Excerpt: The Brabourne Stadium (Marathi: ) is a cricket ground in the Indian city of Mumbai. It is located on 90,000 square yards of reclaimed land along Marine Drive near Churchgate...
Author: Chris Arnot Publisher: Aurum Press Limited ISBN: 9781781313336 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls and housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses – but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane – until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds, Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal and sold it for an industrial estate. Now, in a further addition to Aurum’s successful ‘Lost’ series, following Britain’s Lost Cities and Lost Victorian Britain, Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds, hearing reminiscences from former players and spectators, and finding what, if anything, is left nowadays, apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic and rueful trip back in time.
Author: Barney Spender Publisher: Lucky Dissanayake ISBN: 0953703266 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 1
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Ground Rules taps into the world's love affair with cricket, and explains how key cricket grounds around the world have played significantly in cricketing heritage since 1877. Each chapter takes a different Test Match venue from one of the ten test-playing nations--two each in the case of Australia, England, and India--and provides a fascinating, colorful account of the players, matches, and incidents that have shaped the history of test cricket at that site. Ground Rules: A Celebration of Test Cricket is beautifully illustrated with two hundred eighty large format color images--many of them rare--from some of the world's leading cricket photographers, including Patrick Eagar and Graham Morris, and renowned photography agencies such as Getty Images. The book also boasts a fascinating compilation of Wisden statistics--including the scorecards of every Test Match played at the featured grounds since the birth of international cricket. With a foreword by David Gower, the authors of each chapter include international cricketers Andy Flower, Steve Waugh, Sourav Ganguly, and Kumar Sangakkara; and celebrated cricket writers and broadcasters Donna Symmonds, Qamar Ahmed, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Peter Robinson, Richard Hobson, and Richard Boock.
Author: Roger D. C. Evans Publisher: STRI ISBN: 9781873431009 Category : Cricket grounds Languages : en Pages : 296
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Covering all aspects of cricket groundsmanship, this text sets the maintenance of modern cricket grounds in historical context by a survey of the groundsman's art since the 1600s. The work details the history of groundsmanship either side of World War II, looking at the modern role of agronomists and other scientists in the study of cricket surfaces. Subsequent topics include: the assessment of an existing table; pitch preparation; mechanized maintenance operations; fertilizer and top dressing; weed, moss, worm and pest control; renovation and repair; and care of the outfield. A chapter is devoted to the planning and construction of new grounds.
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