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Elk Stopped Play: And Other Tales from Wisden´s ´Cricket Round the World´
Charlie (E Connelly
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Description for Elk Stopped Play: And Other Tales from Wisden´s ´Cricket Round the World´
Hardback. Editor(s): Connelly, Charlie. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
There are few parts of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack that embody the magic and appeal of the game more than Cricket Round the World. Elk Stopped Play is a carefully-chosen selection of stories from twenty years of one of Wisden’s most-loved sections. Combining the highlights of two decades of the Almanack’s coverage of the game’s further reaches, as well as original material that places the stories in context and expands upon the incidents and personalities involved, it is an original and eccentric examination of the sport’s enduring worldwide appeal. There are extraordinary matches, great individual ... Read more
There are few parts of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack that embody the magic and appeal of the game more than Cricket Round the World. Elk Stopped Play is a carefully-chosen selection of stories from twenty years of one of Wisden’s most-loved sections. Combining the highlights of two decades of the Almanack’s coverage of the game’s further reaches, as well as original material that places the stories in context and expands upon the incidents and personalities involved, it is an original and eccentric examination of the sport’s enduring worldwide appeal. There are extraordinary matches, great individual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408832370
SKU
V9781408832370
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Charlie (E Connelly
Charlie Connelly is an award-winning broadcaster and the author of ten books, including the bestselling Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast. He has collected Wisden since receiving the 1983 edition for his thirteenth birthday and lives in London. Foreword by Michael Palin.
Reviews for Elk Stopped Play: And Other Tales from Wisden´s ´Cricket Round the World´
a glorious collection...a small book of uncomplicated brilliance.
Cricketer
Love shines from the pages, a love for cricket evident in both the reports themselves and the way the editor, Charlie Connelly, has updated them. Love, too, for people as well as the game.
Spectator
a series of funny, poignant, heroic, historic, farcical and contemporary tales that ... Read more
Cricketer
Love shines from the pages, a love for cricket evident in both the reports themselves and the way the editor, Charlie Connelly, has updated them. Love, too, for people as well as the game.
Spectator
a series of funny, poignant, heroic, historic, farcical and contemporary tales that ... Read more