No-Balls and Googlies: a Cricket Companion

This book uncovers the origin of this fascinating game and explores its traditions, records, milestones, and memorable moments through a fascinating array of facts and figures, anecdotes and curiosities. For example did you know that the Hambledon Club of Hampshire, founded around 1767, is generally perceivd as cricket's spiritaul home? Or that British and Australian troops conducted their own Desert Ashes series in Iraq in 2005? Or perhaps that England XI's first overseas tour was to the U.S.? From leg glance to leg before, king pair to cover drive, and from the no-ball to the googly, this book is sure to enteratin, inform, and delight.