Overview
CRICKET'S PURE PLEASURE is the account, in words and images, of a remarkable four-day game of cricket played at Lord's in September 2015 between Yorkshire and Middlesex. It opened with high drama when Yorkshire's Ryan Sidebottom bowled a triple-wicket maiden at the start of the game, and closed spectacularly on the fourth day when Yorkshire suffered a batting collapse. In between was a magnificent 149 from Nick Compton that led the way in wresting the initiative from Yorkshire. To these ingredients were added the absorbing attritional cricket that makes the long form of the game so compelling. At the end Middlesex were the victors but Yorkshire were crowned worthy County Champions of 2015. CRICKET'S PURE PLEASURE takes the reader through the highs and lows, the quick movements and slow movements, the loud and the soft of cricket in its greatest form. Where words fall short of conveying the splendour of the whole, the 65 photographs take up the challenge, so that the book as a whole aims to give some insight into the pure pleasure, free of blemish of any kind, that cricket can provide. Sir John Major who, among other accomplishments, is the author of a best-selling cricket book 'More than a game', descibed it as a wonderful record of a truly remarkable match .
Full Product Details
Author: Tim Cawkwell
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 0.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.168kg
ISBN: 9781523688555
ISBN 10: 1523688556
Pages: 60
Publication Date: 05 March 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Tim Cawkwell was born in 1948 and lives in Norwich in the United Kingdom. He is the author of several books: -The World Encyclopaedia of Film (co-editor, 1972) -Film Past Film Future (2011) -Temenos 2012, a diary about the Temenos film festival in Greece in 2012 -From Neuralgistan to the Elated kingdom: a personal journey inside Sicily (2013) -Between Wee Free and Wi Fi: Scotland and the UK belong surely? (2013) -The New Filmgoer's Guide to God (2014) -A Tivoli Companion (2015) and another cricket book 'The Tale of Two Terriers and the Somerset Cat' (2017) about the scrap for the county championship in 2016. In 2008 he launched his own website for writing about the cinema, www.timcawkwell.co.uk, which he has regularly maintained ever since, later adding to it a Wordpress blog, www.cawkwell200.com. In 2013 he set up his own imprint, Sforzinda Books, as an outlet for his publishing.
