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- ISBN 9781915237262
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Trinorth Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The golden age of this type of story has now passed. The reasons are obvious. Chief among them is the
earning power of top players, both from central contracts and on the franchise Twenty20 circuit, as well
as the fact that international and franchise schedules increasingly impinge upon the UK summer.
These stories are not entirely obsolete, however, although they will most often involve players taking their
first steps on the road to superstardom, future stars before they became household names. Then there are
players in the twilight of their careers, if not former stars then certainly with their highest peaks behind
them. And between the springtime baby steps and the autumnal last knockings, there are a clutch of chapters
involving cricketers in their high-summer pomp, living legends treading the league cricket boards.
These magical stories are unique to cricket. And yet no one has collected them in one place. Until now.
Scott Oliver turned to freelance features writing in 2012 after completing an arduous
PhD on Peronist Argentina – mainly about sport, although he has written on culture and politics
for the Guardian, the New European, New Statesman, VICE and others. A regular contributor of football
longforms to The Blizzard, Mundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written
hundreds of pieces on a multitude of topics – some about the superstar overseas pros featured in this
book – for ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz, the Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly, for whom he has been
club cricket correspondent since its 2017 re-launch, compiling the much-loved “Club Cricket Hall of
Fame” series. This is his first book.
