Cricket, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Cricket

A few reasons to play or watch cricket

A few reasons not to play or watch cricket

Introduction

Anyone for cricket?

Full contact cricket?

CHAPTER ONE: Bat meets ball

Fancy a game of stoolball?

Creag, crekette or sgrittare?

Cricket gets serious

An ode to cricket

Poor Fred

Under, round and over

Fancy footwork

A global game

A cricketing heavyweight?

A safe haven?

CHAPTER TWO: The field of play

Too dangerous

Unlikely venues

A cricketing high

At the end of the world

Cricketus interruptus

Expect the unexpected

A welcome break

Food, glorious food

Smash hits

CHAPTER THREE: The kit bag

Willow and leather

Bat evolution

Odd balls

Shiver me timbers

White knights

The wrong trousers

Leg, head and bits before wicket

Cricketing hits

In a word

CHAPTER FOUR: Let battle commence

Nuts and bolts

What the batsman does

Does it ever end?

How to score

Totting it all up

The perfect cricket tea

Test results

The nightwatchman

What the bowler does

Verbal mishits

Thrice bowled

Up the wizard’s sleeve

Out in the field

Where should I stand?

All together now

In the know

Cricket chants

Cricketing minnows?

CHAPTER FIVE: Politics

Roving players

Gentlemen and Players

Born and bred

Ladies’ firsts

Cricket ‘whites’

The original tourists

Flashpoints

In the hot seat

Creatures of habit

CHAPTER SIX: No holds barred

Crunch time!

Sneaky tactics

A danger to others

A war of words

The heckler

Smoke, spooks and bungs

Cricket in the arts

CHAPTER SEVEN: The great players

The batsmen

Big and small

The bowlers

Nicknames

All-rounders

What larks!

Appendices

Well-worn phrases

Everyone for cricket?

Cricket lingo

Cricket machines

Cricket Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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