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Cricket: The Game of Life: Every reason to celebrate

Scyld Berry

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Description for Cricket: The Game of Life: Every reason to celebrate Paperback. 'This could be the first existential book about cricket I've ever read. It's certainly the most ambitious, and by turns the most beautiful..It's both sweeping and meticulous all at once..I can only say, truly, that my connection to the game feels deeper for having read it.' All Out Cricket Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WSBX; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 32. Weight in Grams: 328.
Winner of the Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year 2016 Shortlisted for the MCC Book of the Year Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards Scyld Berry draws on his experiences as a cricket writer of forty years to produce new insights and unfamiliar historical angles on the game, along with moving reflections on episodes from his own life. The author covers a range of themes including cricket in different areas of the world, and abstract concepts such as language, numbers, ethics and psychology; Scyld ... Read more

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Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

432

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781473618602

SKU

V9781473618602

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About Scyld Berry

Scyld Berry has reported on more England Test matches than any cricket writer, over 400 of them, including 20 Ashes series. He was born and grew up within a mile of Bramall Lane in Sheffield. He started as a cricket journalist in 1976, and has successively been the cricket correspondent of the Observer, the Sunday Correspondent, theIndependent on Sunday, the ... Read more

Reviews for Cricket: The Game of Life: Every reason to celebrate

Scyld Berry's paean to the game from its early days to now is an intensely personal work from one of cricket journalism's most original thinkers, mixing serious historical research with the reveries and theories that have sustained him over a lifetime. A work of love.
ESPNCricinfo
Scyld Berry is a rarity: among cricket correspondents of what were once ... Read morestyled the broadsheets, he is a scribe with almost no playing pedigree...few can challenge the breadth of his knowledge and understanding, or his love, of this most subtle of all sports. Throw in the author's rich cultural awareness and command of the English language and the result is a very good cricket book, one I am happy to label great...Seldom have I read a dust jacket with a more accurate description of its book. Even more rarely have I endorsed a book so wholeheartedly.
Association of Cricket Historians
...400 page love letter to the sport, weaving in his own memories with tales from around the world.
Sport
Perhaps more than any other sport, cricket has inspired outstanding writing. As Scyld Berry reveals in his new book, Cricket: The Game of Life, around 20,000 books or pamphlets have been produced in English on cricket over the years, a record. Now Mr Berry, a former editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, has written a worthy addition to this rich lineage. The book may be eclectic, but it is also rewarding'
The Economist
This could be the first existential book about cricket I've ever read. It's certainly the most ambitious, and by turns the most beautiful...It's both sweeping and meticulous all at once....I can only say, truly, that my connection to the game feels deeper for having read it. It's a book that dares to concern itself with the 'why' question that lies behind everything. I feel like I understand a little more about why this enduringly magical, absurdly incongruous, infinitely renewable curio continues to take hold of us, and can offer no greater praise than that.
Phil Walker
All Out Cricket
The game of cricket manages to invade the minds of all that are passionate about it on so many levels - it's combination of tradition, innovation, rivalry and friendship makes it truly unique. Scyld manages to encapsulate everything that is great about cricket into a fantastically entertaining book that reminds us all of how lucky we are to have involvement in the best game of all.
Andrew Strauss Cricket's rich and varied tapestry, revealing character and national characteristics is passed on here by a man who has always been passionately interested in both.
Mike Atherton When I see the quality of writing by people like Scyld Berry...I feel daunted. I can never write as well as they can.
Rahul Dravid
The extended piece on the pressures of Ashes series on captains is beautifully painted....I think every aspiring young England cricketer should read this....not as something to be afraid of, but to enlighten and prepare for the challenges that may come his way
Andy Flower
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