Cricket Books

[fredfertang]

For those of us interested in books we have a preview of what is on its way

 

[neville cardus]

What happened to the review section's RSS feed?

 

[fredfertang]

No idea mate - one for James - I shall ask him

 

[Lokomotiv]

3. The clue is in the name of the game - cricket as opposed to baseball or rounders

Is bending arm illegal from the start of Cricket in known history?

 

[fredfertang]

Is bending arm illegal from the start of Cricket in known history?

Bending the arm is fine, its the straightening of it that is the problem

 

[Lokomotiv]

Bending the arm is fine, its the straightening of it that is the problem

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean. Bending the arm when bowling is illegal, OK?

 

[neville cardus]

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean. Bending the arm when bowling is illegal, OK?

No. Not okay. And not true either. You could and should discover all this for yourself.

 

[Lokomotiv]

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Sometimes there is a fielder in front of the Wicket on the non-striker side. So I do not think that 2 Wicket Keepers on each side is ridiculous.
Wicket-Keeper on the non-striker side plays for taking run-out, etc.

 

[Red]

Sometimes there is a fielder in front of the Wicket on the non-striker side. So I do not think that 2 Wicket Keepers on each side is ridiculous.
Wicket-Keeper on the non-striker side plays for taking run-out, etc.

It's a great idea. And we should have 4 wickets instead of 2. And the wicketkeepers could just wear 1 glove so they can throw better. And we could get rid of the wickets and just have "bases" so no one trips over.

 

[James]

What happened to the review section's RSS feed?

No idea mate - one for James - I shall ask him

We had some problems getting it to work under a new configuration a couple of years ago and never got back to it.

We have a new system coming, so we'll look at reincorporating it within the next month or two.

 

[neville cardus]

Great news, James. Thanks.

 

[neville cardus]

In other great news, fellow readers, I picked up WG's The History of a Hundred Centuries today. All I'm lacking now is his Little Book. Affordable copies do not exist.

 

[fredfertang]

The Future of Cricket Publishing

 

[Spikey]

What Are You Doing Out Here (ISBN 978-0473-16331-0) :: Last Side Publishing

I did not know this existed

Just thought I should let you guys know that thought of mine

 

[neville cardus]

Always thought that episode was worth a book. One of the great early South African cricket scribblers -- either Duffus or Greyvenstein -- wrote something beautiful about it somewhere. Thanks for sharing.

 

[fredfertang]

It's a splendid little book - I did intend to review it at one point but never did, although gave it a mention here

 

[jan]

Many a slip - more often than not it feels like Haigh used to play for my club

 

[archie mac]

Many a slip - more often than not it feels like Haigh used to play for my club

Fine read, although a better title for the Aussie release

 

[archie mac]

Sad news

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[neville cardus]

Was pleasantly surprised to find an item about his death on my favourite left-wing news site:

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-irreplaceable-mike-marqusee/

I had no idea Marqusee was a socialist. Being well to the left of CLR James, and bridling at the idea that cricket is a column of the establishment, I'm always delighted to discover things like this.