The history of cricket : from the weald to the world
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The history of cricket : from the weald to the world
Stationery Office, c1997
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Bibliography: p. 251-253
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this work, the author examines old myths and offers insights into cricket's development from a rudimentary ball-game into a highly sophisticated sport that is still spreading to new parts of the world.
Table of Contents
- The origins - early cricket fact file
- early days of the MCC and Lord's Ground
- the mould begins to set
- diversions and development
- clubs, counties and tests, 1860-1890
- the amateur game, 1860-1890
- the golden age?
- amateur junketings and other overseas matters
- the tests take over
- between the wars - England vs the rest
- the Second World War and its aftermath, 1939-62
- time for change
- the 1990s.
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