Huw Turbervill (The Cricketer)

The Final Test

The Uncertain Future of Cricket's First-Class Game

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The editor of The Cricketer goes on a soul-searching journey to discover what the future holds for Test cricket.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781399417525
• ISBN-10: 1399417525
• Artikelnr.: 71235880

Autorenporträt

Huw Turbervill has been the editor of The Cricketer since 2021 after 15 years at the Telegraph (doing some touring as Scyld Berry's sidekick). He started his career in Ipswich at the East Anglian Daily Times. His books include The Toughest Tour: The Ashes Away Series Since the War and The Cricketer's Anthology of the Ashes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. How people learned to stop worrying and love T20
2. Testing thoughts
3. David Gower and my golden years
4. The Sky effect
5. Graham Gooch and Grandstand
6. Open a window for Test cricket
7. Why can't I be more like Jarrod?
8. Viv Richards: the king and I
9. Test cricket before 1980
10. Farokh Engineer and India
11. Test cricket in the 1980s
12. My love of county cricket
13. The Hundred, decisively divisive
14. Mudassar Nazar and Pakistan
15. Test cricket in the 1990s
16. Jack Russell, the artist
17. Test cricket in the 2000s
18. Merv Hughes coming in off his long run
19. Test cricket in the 2010s
20. Richard Hadlee, the prince of New Zealand
21. 2020 to . Bazball and beyond
22. International white-ball cricket
23. At home with the Topleys
24. My love of club cricket
25. Cricket journalism
26. Cricket and my family
Conclusion: Let's talk up Test cricket
References
Bibliography
Picture credits
Acknowledgements
Index