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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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 297 pages ; 20 cm |
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Contents:
- 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.