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The Willow Wand
Some Cricket Myths Explained
- Author:
- By Derek Birley
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- Paperback
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- Published: 15th Sep 2000
- ISBN: 1854107291
- Pages: 224
- Size: 233mm x 155mm
From Word of Sport:
Latest reissue of Birley's classic view of the myths and realities of cricket history. Quite simply, a masterpiece.
From the Publisher:
Anyone widely read in cricket's rich literature knows that only one book merits discussion in the same breath as Beyond a Boundary. Nothing less than an anatomy of the game, The Willow Wand measures cricket's mythology against the reality. It reassesses legendary cricketers like W. G. Grace and C. B. Fry, revered commentators like Neville Cardus, and modern phenomena like limited-overs games and the Packer era, and shows how cricket's hallowed etiquette could mask unpleasant exclusions on grounds of race and class.
Witty, controversial and hugely readable, The Willow Wand is a challenging riposte to any notion of cricket as being a bland, bucolic idyll.
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