Cricket ball : the heart of the game / Gary Cox.

No object encapsulates the subtle, mysterious richness of cricket as much as its most famous character, the cricket ball: the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game. Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises: new ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball, no-ball, l...

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Main Author: Cox, Gary, 1964- (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Physical Description:ix, 297 pages ; 20 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a First Delivery: Loosener. Animated inanimate object -- A regular Mad Hatter's tea party -- Watching cricket on the radio -- Second Delivery: Cricket Ball Surveyed. Ideal ball -- Real ball -- Perfect handful -- Third Delivery: Cricket Ball Made. What is a cricket ball? -- Evolution of the rolling globular body -- Coriaceus orbis -- Centres of excellence -- Fourth Delivery: Cricket Ball Played. Bowling overarm, not underarm or throwing -- New ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball, no-ball, lost ball, swing ball, dot ball -- Ball tampering -- Fast bowling: pace is nothing without control -- Length -- Line -- Bodyline -- Spin bowling: the art of confusion -- Fielding: the art of attentiveness -- Transcendental ball -- Fifth Delivery: Cricket Ball Pain. Comedy and tragedy -- Pitches, padding and cane handle bats -- Death toll -- Princes, umpires and pigeons -- Sixth Delivery: Cricket Ball Fame. Great players, stats and performances -- Botham rises from the ashes -- Easeful Atlas -- The Gatting Ball -- The Strauss Ball -- The Laker Ball -- The Sobers Six Sixes Ball -- Seventh Delivery: Umpire Miscounting and Other Ball Stories. 
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