The Picador book of cricket
By: edited by Ramachandra Guha.
Contributors: Guha, Ramachandra.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Cricket -- Literary collections.; English literature.
Other titles: Book of cricket
Description: Contributed articles.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: FROM GRACE TO HUTTON; title: Alan Gibson - Great Men Before Agamemnon 3; title: C. B. Fry - The Founder of Modern Batsmanship 18; title: Bernard Darwin - Genial Giant 20; title: Ray Robinson - The Second Most Famous Beard in Cricket 25; title: J. H. Fingleton - Never Another Like Victor 29; title: Bernard Hollowood - The Greatest of Bowlers 37; title: Ian Peebles - The Colossus of Rhodes 43; title: Ralph Barker - The American LiUee 47; title: Neville Cardus - The Millionaire of Spin 57; title: R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - Three English Batsmen 62; title: Ronald Mason - Imperial Hammond 68; title: W J. O'Reilly - Young Don Bradman 79; title: J. H. Fingleton - Brightly Fades the Don 85; title: C. L. R. James - The Black Bradman 96; title: J. H. Fingleton - My Friend, the Enemy o05; title: E. W. Swanton - Compton Arrives in; title: Alan Ross - Hutton Departs x16; title: 'Evoe' - Can Nothing Be Done? Izo; title: FROM MILLER TO TBNDULKAR; title: Ray Robinson - Touch of a Hero I25; title: Ray Robinson - Much in a Name 132; title: Ray Robinson - The Original Little Master 140; title: C. L. R. James - A Representative Man 148; title: John Arlott - In His Pomp Ix6; title: Ray Robinson - Southern Southpaws 169; title: Frank Keating - Down Under and Out x79; title: Scyld Berry - Gavaskar Equals Bradman x83; title: John Woodcock - Kapil's Devil 86; title: Donald Woods - Twist Again 89; title: MartinJohnson - A Man with a Secret 191; title: Scyld Berry - Botham's Fastest Hundred 194; title: Hugh Mdlvanney -Black Is Bountiful 2oI; title: Frank Keating - Marshall Arts 207; title: Martin Johnson - King of the Willow 212; title: B. C. Pires - Emperor of Trinidad 215; title: Frank Keating - Final Fling for the Fizzer 217; title: Mike Selvey - Sachin of Mumbai 22o; title: Suresh Menon - Tendulkar of the World 222; title: Alan Ross - Watching Benaud Bowl 225; title: LITTLE HEROES; title: A. A. Thomson - Bat, Ball and Boomerang 229; title: John Arlott - Rough Diamond 237; title: Neville Cardus - Robinson of Yorkshire 241; title: David Foot - Character in the Counties 244; title: Rowland Ryder - The Unplayable Jeeves 249; title: C. L. R. James - The Most Unkindest Cut 252; title: Matthew Engel - A Great Fat Man 261; title: Dale Slater - Abed and Apartheid 268; title: Philip Snow - The Fijian Botham 273; title: Sujit Mukherjee - A Jesuit in Patna 282; title: Neville Cardus - A Shastbury Character 286; title: Alan Gibson - The Unmasking of a Dashing Oriental Star 290; title: N. S. Ramaswami - Iverson and the Lesser Arts 293; title: Richard Cashman - The Celebrated Yabba 295; title: Hubert Phillips- An Englishman's Crease 297; title: VMATCHES; title: Ralph Barker - The Dem Agaist Englan 301; title: Neville Cardus - The Ideal Cricket Match 317; title: C. L. R. James - Barnes v. Constantine 326; title: J. H. Fingleton - The Best Test I Have Known 330; title: Richie Benaud - The Last Day at Brisbane 34; title: Mike Marqusee - David Slays Goliath 350; title: R. C. Robeon-Glasgow - The One-Way Critic 361; title: STYLEs AND THEE; title: J. H. Fingleton - The Brilliance of LefHanders 365; title: John Arlott - Fast and Furious 38; title: Ian Peebles - Opening Batsmen 382; title: John Arlott - Not One to Cover 386; title: Gerald Brodribb- The Big Hit 390; title: Ian Peebles - Ba9ooners 398; title: Neville Cardus - The Umpire 401; title: J. H. Fingleton - Cricket Farewels 404; title: Tunku Varadarajan - To Lord's with Love - and a Hamper 406; title: Alan Ross - The Presence of Ranji 40o; title: Gideon Haigh - Sir Donald Brandname 412; title: B. C. Pires - Coping with Defeat 419; title: Ian Wooldridge - Ashes Dream Teams 424; title: John Arlott - Australianism 428; title: V S. Naipaul - The Caribbean Flavour 432; title: J. B. Priestley - The Lesson of Garfield Sobers 437; title: Neville Cardus - The Spirit of Summer 44I; title: A. A. Thomson - Winter Made Glorious 445; title: Neville Cardus - What's in a Name? 450; title: Rowland Ryder - The Pleasures of Reading Wisden 453; title: Ramachandra Guha - Epilogue: An Addict's Archive 461; title: R. C. Robertson-Glasgow - The Bowler's Epitaph 470; title: Acknowledgements 471.