Howzat! - Cricket Edition


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Rohan, a cricketer, he is the best of the best. This goes from his childhood and tells how he succeeds as a cricketer. When he was about to experience something new, he had faced a major setback. What will he do? will he make his comeback as a cricketer once again? It will be full of full, twists, and thrill. This is Howzat! - Cricket Edition.




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Mini Howzat! Cricket Kit


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This book has everything you need to play the classic cricket dice game!Fed up with 'rain stopped play' on the TV, and too busy to don whites for an entire day? Simple to master and great fun to play, "Howzat!" - the cricket dice game that can be played anytime, anywhere - is the answer. You might never have bowled a maiden over or scored a century at the real sport, but with a flick of the wrist of the special dice provided, you can be the toast of the pavilion - and all from the comfort of your desk or armchair. Complete with its score-pad and 32-page book with information on rules, training and tactics, and trivia, "The Mini Howzat! Cricket Kit" is perfect for frustrated cricketers of all ages.




Howzat!


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The fourth and fifth Toby Jones adventures in convenient omnibus edition. Stumped for something exciting to read? With must-have cricket info PLUS two edge-of-your seat adventures starring talented, time-travelling cricketer toby Jones, Howzat! is perfect for young cricket fans. toby Jones is no ordinary schoolboy. As well as being an awesome cricketer, he's a time traveller who gets to watch the most exciting games in the history of cricket. Ever. But sometimes this leads to trouble. All toby really wants is to play for Australia in the junior Ashes match. But he has to find a cure for his friend Ali, who is still feeling the ill-effects of breaking the time travel code. His time-travelling foe is out to get him, and there's unfinished business with an ancient and deadly Cricket Lord ... Featuring fascinating twenty/20 cricket facts and a ton of tips from famous fast bowler Brett Lee, Howzat! wraps up the toby Jones series in thrilling style. Howzat! includes: toby Jones and the timeless Cricket Match toby Jones and the Clash with Father time




Cricket in the 21st Century


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This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. Cricket’s struggle for global recognition and the shifting concerns about cricket’s perceived ‘character’ provide two of the most significant meta-narratives to shape the game’s historical and future development. However, in contrast to the degree of continuity these narratives appear to support, the game is currently undergoing a particularly rapid and radical phase of change. This book illustrates some of these dominant processes, that can be broadly categorized as the changing political economy of the game, the nation-specific manifestations of cricket’s political-economic landscape, and the intro- and retrospection within the English game. Cricket is not only thriving across the world, its global spread reveals narratives of migration, national and international politics, astute governance, empowerment of people, and cultural practices of everyday life. New ethical, political, and identity-related concerns have arisen with the reworking of the objectives and methods of playing and watching cricket. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities. Cricket in the 21st Century will be a fascinating read for students, scholars as well as general readers with an interest in the sociology and history of sport and global political economy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.




Sports Talk


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It’s game on in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions, sayings and images that populate our everyday language! That’s the challenge that this book takes on, using a playbook for each sport. It kicks off with an opening run through the game of football, then it’s out of the gate with wire-to-wire coverage of horse racing. After going for the fences and covering all the bases in the sport of baseball, the ball is kept rolling, despite many a sticky wicket, through the long-running game of cricket. A blow-by-blow account of the sweet science of boxing is followed by play-by-play accounts of 35 more sports that have been added to the roster. At the finish line, the top three sports, are scored on their relative contributions to everyday language, and declared win, place and show. The discussion is enlivened by lots of sports humour and anecdotes along with quotations from sports personalities some of which may sound quite familiar, much like déjà vu all over again.




Cricketing Cultures in Conflict


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This title looks at the economic and social implications of the 2003 Cricket World Cup in various countries and explores the role of cricket in relation to South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West India, and Kenya.




Uncertain Corridors


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For all the glamour and new-found wealth that has come to cricket thanks to the IPL, the sport has rarely faced such an uncertain future. The gold standard of cricket - Test matches - is being sidelined in some countries by the shorter forms of the game. While the sport is being transformed, administrators are struggling to keep pace with it all. Yet, despite all of this, the sport's essential elements remain in place: great games are played, new stars rise up and old stars step back and retire. In this new collection of writing, Gideon Haigh takes the pulse of the game today, and in particular looks at the decline of the sport in Australia, where the once all-conquering men in the 'baggy green' suddenly found themselves struggling to impose themselves on their opponents.




Howzat!


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England, summer 1975. The Australian cricket team, visiting for an Ashes series, fields players who will become legends of the game: Ian Chappell, Rodney Marsh, Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson. But cricket is about to undergo a revolution, and the Establishment about to get hit for six. This book is the story of World Series Cricket and the Australian media mogul Kerry Packer.