Cricketing Lives

Rezensionen / Stimmen

What an enthralling voyage this book affords, with its vivid style and sequences of fascinating detail. Richard Thomas has created something unusually readable.' * David Frith, founding editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly * A wonderful read. Exhaustive and comprehensive as a reference tome, but also infused with a passion for the game and its players that distinguishes a mere cricketing aficionado from a true cricket lover.' * Phil Steele, BBC Sport * The game could wish for no more companiable host than Richard H. Thomas. This is a warm and welcoming amble through history, with a new story at every turn.' * Jon Hotten, Wisden Cricket Monthly * Richard H. Thomas offers all of cricket's history in his Cricketing Lives, and he has written the kind of book you'd love to settle down with on a winter's night as the wind blows outside, a warm and generous history that glows with love as well as learning . . . Thomas has a knack for finding the quote you 've never read, the reference that sends you scuttling towards unfamiliar books. * Wisden Cricket Monthly * In the unlikely event that you won't find any cricket to watch over the summer, this joyous book should fill a gap. Thomas, a journalism lecturer, concentrates on the game 's rich tapestry of people and anecdotes . . . this book is a chance to feast not just on the heroics of Stokes and "Beefy" Botham, but the early days of cricket - Oliver Cromwell who liked it initially but later tried to ban it, Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died in 1751 after being hit by a ball . . . W. G. Grace and his eye for his wallet, the playboys and profligates, boozers and buccaneers between the wars, the brutality of Bodyline . . . you name it, it's all here. Terrific. * Daily Mail *