Cricket is a very old game in Scotland - far older than football, a sport which sometimes exercises a baleful, obsessive and deleterious effect on the national psyche. Cricket goes back at least as far as the Jacobite rebellions and their sometimes vicious aftermaths. It is often felt that Scottish cricket underplays itself. It has been portrayed as in some ways an English sport, a "softies" sport, and a sport that has a very limited interest among the general population of Scotland. This is emphatically not true, and this book is in part an attempt to prove that this is a misconception. Sixty-one games (it was going to be just 60, but one turned up at the last minute!) have been chosen from the past 250 years to show that cricket does indeed influence a substantial part of the nation. The matches have been selected at all levels, from Scotland against visiting Australian teams all the way down to a Fife school fixture. These naturally reflect the life, experience and geographical whereabouts of the author. The games are quirky sometimes, (and quirkily chosen) with an emphasis on important events in the broader history of this country, notably the imminence of wars and resumptions at the end of these conflicts. But the important thing is that every single cricket contest does mean an awful lot to some people.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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978-1-84921-191-8 (9781849211918)
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David W. Potter has been involved in Scottish cricket for over 60 years. Now a Scottish sports writer, he has published more than 20 books on Scottish football and cricket.
Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; Illustrations; The Thousand Guineas game; Cricket after Crimea; It's a long way to Inveraray!; An interesting event; Giants of Edinburgh; Good stuff at The Grange; Beating the Colonials; Carrick's mighty score; W G Grace comes to town; The Croucher comes to the village; Disaster; Thwarting the Colonials; Nearly trumping Trumper; Drumpellier Invictus!; Scotland beat India!; The Golden Age; On the brink; The Resumption; The Roaring Twenties begin; Skittled!; Three centuries at Forthill; Fifeshire at last; Buddies?; "The day they walked to see Macartney"; Sievwright v Brechin; Handbags in Forfar; Arbroath go for broke and get broken; "The umpire canna coont"; West Lothian never in the hunt; Cricket on the brink; We'll meet again ... Won't we?; The laddies who fought and won!; Resumption; And exit the Don; You go, Hugo; Raw and hot, but love as well; Hit the ba' ee loch, min!; Tension; Rudi makes his mark; The Masterton Trophy takes off; West Lothian win ... but does cricket?; Every run a prisoner; Strathie at last!; Ireland's amazing collapse; Kings of the Kingdom!; Freuchie, my Lords; The first time; And on English soil as well!; Cricket, lovely cricket ... but alcohol stops play; Derby on a distant field; Craig leads the way; A proud day for Stoneywood-Dyce; Big Day for small clubs; You'll always remember the first game; Scotland's triumph; A tie at 267; Eee ba goom, Falkland won!; And this was carnage; The Auld Enemy?; Runs galore; Village cricket at its best; Photograph Credits; Index to Match Venues; Index to Matches.
