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Cricket Ball (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350014589)
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xNo object encapsulates the subtle, mysterious richness of cricket as much as its most famous character, the cricket ball: the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game.
Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises: new ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball, no-ball, lost ball, swing ball and dot ball. He untangles the complexities of spin bowling (with a little help from Shane Warne), the tricks and cheats involved in ball tampering (including a look at the 2018 Australian scandal) and explores the multi-coloured future of a rapidly changing game.
A kaleidoscopic look at the ball through the lenses of everything from philosophy and science to history, politics and biography and the myriad facts and figures of the vast cricket universe, Cox brings you a brimming biography of this legendary leathern orb and the heroes, fools and villains it has created along the way.
Author: Gary Cox
ISBN-10: 1350014583
ISBN-13: 9781350014589
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2018
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2019
Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises: new ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball, no-ball, lost ball, swing ball and dot ball. He untangles the complexities of spin bowling (with a little help from Shane Warne), the tricks and cheats involved in ball tampering (including a look at the 2018 Australian scandal) and explores the multi-coloured future of a rapidly changing game.
A kaleidoscopic look at the ball through the lenses of everything from philosophy and science to history, politics and biography and the myriad facts and figures of the vast cricket universe, Cox brings you a brimming biography of this legendary leathern orb and the heroes, fools and villains it has created along the way.
Author: Gary Cox
ISBN-10: 1350014583
ISBN-13: 9781350014589
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2018
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2019
By Gary Cox
xGary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. He is author of The Sartre Dictionary, Sartre and Fiction, Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed, How to Be an Existentialist, The Existentialist's Guide, How to Be a Philosopher, The God Confusion, Deep Thought and Existentialism and Excess - all published by Bloomsbury.
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