Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2000 / A Century of Wisden
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 094776657X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1600 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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This year's contributions include a retrospective on the career of retired Australian captain Mark Taylor, a look back at the 1999 World Cup in England, and a moving tribute to the late great West Indian paceman, Malcolm Marshall. Like its predecessors, the 2000 edition will bring pleasure to cricket lovers the world over. As part of this celebration, the five cricketers of the century are listed, and what a selection it is. As certain as the changing of the seasons, the new edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack heralds the forthcoming season with a review of all things cricketing over the previous year. With such breadth, the appeal is as clear as ever. The third millennium proves no exception on this account, as the famous yellow volume clocks up another year. Elsewhere, this year's edition features the usual array of articles, facts, figures, reports, and misc
A Century of Notes: The Editors' Notes, Wisden's famous editorial, began in 1901. This will include reports and pictures of the World Cup, the Five Cricketers of the Year, and articles on current topics, among them contrasting pieces from Martin Johnson -who says the good times have all gone - and Patrick Collins, who finds a day's cricket at Taunton as idyllic as it ever was. And there will, of course, be our traditional round up of the year's barmy on-field happenings.. Games of the Century: The 100 best cricket matches listed, justified and indexed.4. Images of the Century: The best cricket picture from each decade, selected by Patrick Eagar, and displayed in a 16-page plate section (in addition to the normal colour plates).2. Wisden 2000 will be the most important edition of the Almanack since its 1963 Centenary. Successive editors have thundered for and against (mostly against) every change in the game since then. Books of the Century: How cricket writing has changed since 1900.5. In addition, as a once-only offer, Wisden will be packaged with a FREE paperback book celebrating its publication in every year of the twentieth century. This will feature an extract from each and every edition of Wisden from 1900 to 1999
David Zauhar said the Bible for "The Game They Play in Heaven". After football (or "soccer" as Americans think it called), Cricket is the most global of team sports. It's a game of grace and power, and, above all, over "the Bible for "The Game They Play in Heaven"" according to David Zauhar. After football (or "soccer" as Americans think it called), Cricket is the most global of team sports. It's a game of grace and power, and, above all, over 200 years of history. And everything one needs to know about the game is in this book, which is updated annually . 00 years of history. And everything one needs to know about the game is in this book, which is updated annually