Caught Yapping: A History of Cricket in 100 Quotes - Couverture souple

Mukherjee, Abhishek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143463403 ISBN 13 : 9780143463405

Editeur : India Penguin, 2025

Synopsis

'I do not want to see you, Mr. Warner. There are two teams out there; one is trying to play cricket; and the other is not.'

'There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?'

'Thank you for making my tournament a success.'

'Girls don't play cricket.'

Bodyline, World Series Cricket and IPL--all seminal events in the game's history and succinctly captured in the quotes above by Bill Woodfull, Kerry Packer and Lalit Modi, respectively. And a casual comment made by a policeman to Rachael Heyhoe, which spurred her on to become a cricketer and eventually organize the World Cup, two years before the men's!

Caught Yapping takes a never trodden before route to narrate the history of cricket, using the medium of quotes to do the talking.

Why quotes?

Cricket has inspired considerable literature and continues to do so. Then there are words the people of cricket have spoken on the field, in press conferences, in commentary boxes and elsewhere. These are tales that scorecards do not tell, stories of heroes and villains, rises and falls, temptations and resistance, inclusions and exclusions. This book chronicles the history of cricket, and history means little without the people. And what better way to tell the story of the people than in their own words?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Abhishek Mukherjee is the head of special content at Wisden.com. He co-authored Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town and The Great Indian Cricket Circus; won the Anandji Dossa Award for the Cricket Statistician of the Year in 2019-20; used to be the assistant editor at the Wisden India Almanack and the chief editor at CricketCountry; and has written for several media houses, including The Cricketer, Moneycontrol, The Quint, and Yahoo! Cricket.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: India Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143463403
• ISBN 13: 9780143463405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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