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Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket Brian Levinson

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket By Brian Levinson

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket by Brian Levinson


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This essential companion for all cricket lovers documents the illustrious history of the gentleman's game, is crammed full of fascinating feats, sticky wickets and intriguing trivia. From the worst batsman in the world to the record innings that almost wasn't, this compelling collection of balls, bails, bats and blockholes is guaranteed to enthral.

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket Summary

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket by Brian Levinson

This essential companion for all cricket lovers documents the illustrious history of the gentleman's game. It is crammed full of fascinating feats, sticky wickets and intriguing trivia, so even if you don't like cricket, you'll love this. From the worst batsman in the world to the record innings that almost wasn't, this compelling collection of balls, bails, bats and blockholes is guaranteed to enthral. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.

About Brian Levinson

Brian Levison Brian Levison has had a lifelong interest in cricket and played club cricket for several years. He is also a writer, poet, and amateur chorister. He is the author of All in a Day's Cricket, and Classical Music's Strangest Concerts & Characters. Brian lives in Oxford.

Table of Contents

The iron frame

How the Laws were changed to prevent cheating

Waugh of words

Witty retorts under pressure

Over-dressed for the occasion

Sid Barnes takes the mickey

From sightscreen to silver screen

Cricket takes to the stage

12 o'clock and all's Wells

How Bomber beat the clock

The hunt for the missing run

How a world record almost wasn't

From ashes to The Ashes

Origins of cricket's most famous rivalry

The only blemish

Don Bradman and the 1948 Invincibles

0, 0, 0*, 1, 1*, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1*,
0, 0, 0, 0

The worst batsman in the world

Jennings Tune on song

Ultimate bowling performances

When underarm was underhand

It was legal - but was it fair?

Collecting bug

The world's most expensive cricket book

A costly drop

The 600-run gift

The Blackheath number four

The cricketer linked to five unsolved murders

The bowler who bowled too well

Albert Trott and his benefit match

Beethoven in at number eight

The mathematician who made up teams

The man who loved playing

The umpire with the bowling itch

Once a 'keeper...

Appealing habits of old wicket-keepers

What W.G. doesn't tell you,
Part 1

How Pooley missed the boat

What W.G. doesn't tell you,
Part 2

The episode of the kidnapped player

Golden oldies

Old enough and good enough

Twenty20 fiasco

An offer that should have been refused

Help yourself

Wellington serve up 77-run over

Testing the boundaries

How Somerset were too clever for their own good

Unexpected fame at 37

The player who rose and fell without trace

Well batted, you're dropped!

When the best wasn't good enough

Pass the hat, please

Three in a row does the trick

No room for sentiment

Easier to survive a war than the umpire's decision

A doubtful action

Was cricket's most successful bowler a chucker?

The most exalted hat-trick

Bertie's King-sized victims

Son of a Gunn

Well done, relatively speaking

Hit around The Parks

A first-class debut to forget

Who got the runs?

When the B's took on the rest,
and other strange games

A perfect over

Then Gibbs gives it away

Snowballs in June

The dentally challenged batsman

Neither home nor away

The short, odd, first-class career of Harry Wilson

Jammy for the Jam Sahib

Ranji's legendary record

All over in four and a half hours

The lowest-scoring match on record

Five of the best

The cricketer who should have read Wisden

Out twice before Lynch

Monte's terrible morning

Rippon - or rip-off?
When the tax people looked the other way

Reaping the benefit

How Dickie Dodds batted for God

In your own words

Choice entries in the scorebook

Slowly does it

Nadkarni on the money

83 per cent of the total

Batsmen who did it on their own

The King of cricket

The Yank who struck out Ranji

Australia's Old Trafford
nightmare

Jim Laker's unbeatable achievement

Alletson's innings

A once-in-a-lifetime knock

Struck out of sight

Off-days of the great bowlers

The greatest ODI ever?

The game that broke six records

Through the covers

Cricket and the literary link

The longest gap

22 years between matches

Cricket's greatest name?

A rival to Grace and Bradman

Cricket in high places...

...And low places, cold places and wet places

Additional information

GOR005200910
9781446302507
1446302504
Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket by Brian Levinson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
David & Charles
20120801
144
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