Cricket Ball

Gary Cox

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Année: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781350014596
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Filosofia
• Sous-sujet: Storia e teoria della filosofia

No 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.

Index

10CC here

Abbott, Sean here

Abbott, Tony here

absurdity here, here, here, here, here, here

Abu Dhabi here, here

Achong, Ellis ‘Puss’ here

Adams, Douglas here, here, here

adversity here, here, here, here

Aeroball here

aerodynamics here, here, here

aesthetic here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Afridi, Shahid here

agility here, here, here, here

Agnew, Jonathan here

agricultural here, here

air resistance here, here see also drag

Akhtar, Shoaib here, here

Alderman, Terry here

Ali, Moeen here

All-England Eleven here, here, here, here, here

alum here, here

Americans here

Amiss, Dennis here

Anand & Anand ball here

ancient Greeks here

Anderson, James here, here, here, here

anecdote here, here, here, here, here

aniline leather here

animism here, here, here

Antigua here

Apartheid here

apartheid here, here

aristocracy here

Arlott, John here, here, here

arm ball here

arms race here, here

artefact here

Ashes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, he...