Sticky Dogs and Stardust
Autor Scott Oliveren Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 apr 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1915237262
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 24 black and white photographs; 24 black and white photographs
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Trinorth Ltd
Descriere
No other sport offers up stories quite like the ones collected in Sticky Dogs and Stardust – When the Legends Played in the Leagues. Only cricket – and especially the club cricket of England and the British Isles – allows recreational players to rub shoulders with international stars and even superstars in a fully competitive context, providing them with some of the most cherished memories of their lives. The golden age of this type of story has now passed. The reasons are obvious.
Chief among them is the earning power of top players, both from central contracts and on the franchise Twenty20 circuit, as well as the fact that international and franchise schedules increasingly impinge upon the UK summer. These stories are not entirely obsolete, however, although they will most often involve players taking their first steps on the road to superstardom, future stars before they became household names.
Then there are players in the twilight of their careers, if not former stars then certainly with their highest peaks behind them. And between the springtime baby steps and the autumnal last knockings, there are a clutch of chapters involving cricketers in their high-summer pomp, living legends treading the league cricket boards. These magical stories are unique to cricket. And yet no one has collected them in one place. Until now.