Batting for Time: The Fight to Keep English Cricket Alive - Couverture rigide

Bloom, Ben

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 180150900X ISBN 13 : 9781801509008

Editeur : Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year - Shortlisted

Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year - Longlisted

What must English cricket do to survive?

Faced with a rapidly changing cultural and economic landscape, county cricket finds itself at the most uncertain period of a history spanning more than 150 years.

Through interviews with more than 100 of English cricket’s most important figures, Batting for Time takes an inside look at:

• The precarious state of the sport, asking what it is we expect from our domestic game, who it primarily exists for and where things might go in the future
• The threats that global franchise leagues pose to cricket’s foundations amid growing concern that the best English players will soon turn their back on the domestic game
• The desperate need for cash that many believe could rip the heart out of county clubs
• The civil wars that have developed between the sport’s traditionalists and modernisers, romantics and pragmatists

Using the 2023 season as a backdrop, Batting for Time explores a sport in existential crisis. It is a must-read for cricket fans.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ben Bloom has been a sports journalist on national newspapers since 2010. He spent 11 years at The Telegraph where he wrote on a range of sports, including international and domestic cricket, and led the paper's coverage of three Olympic Games. His work saw him nominated for a British Sports Journalism Award. As a freelance reporter, he has written for the BBC, The Guardian, The Times, Daily Mail, and numerous other outlets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 180150900X
• ISBN 13: 9781801509008
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible