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Compleat Cricket: eight days in September

Compleat Cricket: eight days in September

Cawkwell, Tim

Paperback

Sports General

ISBN10: 1986114031
ISBN13: 9781986114035
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2018
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On Monday 18 September 2017, while Essex had won the cricket County Championship, Warwickshire were in the relegation slot; the next two rounds were to decide which of five teams would join them in going down. The result was eight days of hard-fought cricket, exploiting the game's thrilling capacity for snatching victory from defeat, triumph from disaster - and vice versa. On Thursday 28 September, in the last hour of a county cricket season that had begun six months and fifty-six days of cricket earlier, the matter was finally decided, leaving a trail of 'what ifs' ruefully in the mind. COMPLEAT CRICKET is a richly illustrated account of those last two rounds, eight days of intense battling to score runs, take wickets and hold catches. It contains a light-hearted discussion of the relative merits of slow and fast cricket, blast and block cricket, but it chiefly aims to tell a story that shows off the excitements, tension and drama of slow cricket to perfection. / 110 pages, 112 photographs / The writing throughout is enjoyable, mimicking the anticipation and tension that builds as a longer-form match unfolds, and a long campaign reaches its climax. There is no way to stop yourself from being drawn into the narrative, or feeling the tension, anticipation and excitement. - The Cricketer. I wasn't expecting the book to be as gripping as it is and it's actually one of the best bits of reportage on the climax of the 2017 season that I can remember reading . . . Tim has brought a new vision and a sense of drama and excitement in his account. - Cricket Society Bulletin.

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