1864: The Year That Changed Cricket (inbunden, eng)

The first book to pull together into a single volume the ground-breaking events of 1864 that changed cricket forever.

There have been a great many watershed years in cricket history. The year overarm, rather than underarm, bowling was introduced. The year first-class cricket began to be organised in countries other than England and AustraliaThe year WG Grace, the greatest player of all time, first arrived on the sporting stage. The year a group of Indian architects began constructing the world’s largest stadium, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta. The year the English press hit upon the notion of a County Championship.

And, of course, the year John Wisden launched his world-famous Cricketers’ Almanack.

All these years were, in fact, one year: 1864.

Using contemporary newspaper and magazine reports and letters as its source, 1864: The Year That Changed Cricket takes a thematic journey through six significant turning points in cricket history, with numerous stops along the way, offering a flavour of sporting, cultural and social life in Victorian Britain

Among the curiosities are: cricket on ice amid a harsh winter; the introduction of lacrosse as a potential threat to the summer game; the use of cricket as a treatment for lunatics in Scotland; cricket in numerous court cases involving murder, plunder and fraud; and the second England cricket tour to Australia.