Anyone But England by Mike Marqusee
Mike Marqusee is that exceedingly rare animal: an American who likes cricket - indeed, is obsessed with it, like all true devotees of the game. But coming from a country which didn't invent the game, didn't have an empire and doesn't expect by divine right to be the best in the world at it, gives his perspective on the English game a real originality. Anyone But England stands alongside Beyond a Boundary and Derek Birley's classics, A Social History of English Cricket and The Willow Wand (both published by Aurum) as one of the few indispensable anatomies of the game. It looks at such controversial - even unpalatable - aspects of cricket as racism, fair play and cheating, the place of tradition, the power of the blue-blazered establishment, and why for so long the England team were so bad. On first publication by Verso Marquesee's book attracted an enormous amount of coverage and was condemned by as many died-in-the-wool cricket commentators as it was praised for its freshness and iconoclasm by the more progressively-minded. This new edition includes a new chapter bringing his portrait of the game up to date.
Mike Marqusee is the author of War Minus the Shooting: Journeys through South Asia during the Cricket World Cup and Redemption Song, a biography of Muhammad Ali that was also shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845130848 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845130847 |
| Title | Anyone But England |
| Author | Mike Marqusee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2005-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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