When Cricket and Politics Collided
1968 – 1970 Two Years That Changed Test Cricket
Seiten
2021
Matador (Verlag)
978-1-80046-379-0 (ISBN)
Matador (Verlag)
978-1-80046-379-0 (ISBN)
When Cricket and Politics Collided describes one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of English cricket. A meeting on 27 August 1968 to select the players for a MCC winter tour of South Africa started a chain of events which would shake the very foundations of the cricket establishment.
Over the next two years tours were cancelled, another abandoned and finally one of the founding Test playing nations banned from international cricket for over twenty years.
Remarkably during this upheaval, and at very short notice, two replacement Test series were played. The first between between Pakistan and England, took place in a country where law and order were disintigrating and as a result the tour schedule was changing on an almost daily basis. The players were under enormous stress, their safety genuinely at risk, and even the country’s President would soon be deposed. The second, pitted England against the Rest of the World, opponents that many considered to be the strongest ever assembled for an international match. These two series produced some of the most exciting cricket of the period, and yet both are now largely forgotten.
Over the next two years tours were cancelled, another abandoned and finally one of the founding Test playing nations banned from international cricket for over twenty years.
Remarkably during this upheaval, and at very short notice, two replacement Test series were played. The first between between Pakistan and England, took place in a country where law and order were disintigrating and as a result the tour schedule was changing on an almost daily basis. The players were under enormous stress, their safety genuinely at risk, and even the country’s President would soon be deposed. The second, pitted England against the Rest of the World, opponents that many considered to be the strongest ever assembled for an international match. These two series produced some of the most exciting cricket of the period, and yet both are now largely forgotten.
Richard Thorn has always been a cricket obsessive. Memories of listening to crackly radio broadcasts of Test matches from Australia on a cold winter’s morning and watching England in the Boxing Day Test match at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground are part of his DNA.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Market Harborough |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80046-379-0 / 1800463790 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80046-379-0 / 9781800463790 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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