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Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion (häftad, eng)
''A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue'' Mail on Sunday
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''A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue'' Mail on Sunday
A history of Latin America through cricket
Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football, rugby or baseballIn 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River Plate.
The visionary cricket historian Rowland Bowen said that, during the highpoint of cricket in South America between the two World Wars, the continent could have provided the next Test nationIn Buenos Aires, where British engineers, merchants and meatpackers flocked to make their fortune, the standard of cricket was high: towering figures like Lord Hawke and Plum Warner took star-studded teams of Test cricketers to South America, only to be beaten by Argentina.
A combined Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean team took on the first-class counties in England in 1932. The notion of Brazilians and Mexicans playing T20 at the Maracana or the Azteca today is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
But Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is also a social history of grit, industry and nation-building in the New WorldWest Indian fruit workers battled yellow fever and brutal management to carve out cricket fields next to the railway lines in Costa Rica. Cricket was the favoured sport of Chile''s Nitrate King. Emperors in Brazil and Mexico used the game to curry favour with Europe. The notorious Pablo Escobar even had a shadowy connection to the game.
The fate of cricket in South America was symbolised by Eva Peron ordering the burning down of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club pavilion when the club refused to hand over their premises to her welfare scheme.
Cricket journalists Timothy Abraham and James Coyne take us on a journey to discover this largely untold story of cricket''s fate in the world''s most colourful continentFascinating and surprising, Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is a valuable addition to cricketing and social history.
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 448 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2022-05-12 |
| ISBN | 9781472132512 |
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- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 448
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-05-12
- ISBN 9781472132512
- Förlag Little, Brown Book Group
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