By Simon Rae
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the group violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, all the way down to the 20th century's evident abuses of the spirit of the game.
Written within the comparable vigorous variety that gained such compliment for his W.G. Grace: A Life, Simon Rae's background of dishonest will attract the cricket fan and common reader alike. starting from Thomas White, who notoriously arrived on the crease with a bat the scale of the wicket, on during the Bodyline controversy and throwing, sledging, umpire baiting, and the new shame of Hansie Cronje, It's now not Cricket makes us ask no matter if cricket relatively ever was once the yardstick of all that's precise, sincere, natural and of excellent reputation.
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