[Online library] Never a Gentleman's Game: The Scandal-filled Early Years of Test Cricket
❀ Malcolm Knox ❀
| #6979440 in Books | 2012-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.49 x1.57 x6.54l,.0 | File Name: 1742701930 | 480 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A History Lesson Worth Keeping in Mind|By greign|As the old saying goes, Everything Old is New Again. Dodgy on field practices, players fighting over money, rival promoters trying to get players to play for them. No not the modern game but how cricket was played in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Malcolm Knox brings a sharp focus to the history of the game which|About the Author|One of Australia's most highly acclaimed and versatile writers, Malcolm Knox has published twelve books, including The Greatest: The players, the moments, the matches 1993-2008, The Captains: The story behind Australia's second most important j
Compared with the controversies of contemporary cricket - riven as it is with match-fixing, gambling, cheating and national politics - most people think of the early days of Test cricket as a time of gentlemanly competition and camaraderie, with any disputes settled by Queensberry Rules over a glass of port. Not so. Cricket between the 1870s and 1914 was fraught with exactly the same bitter, vicious and greedy bad behaviour as the current game. It was cricket in the raw...
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