Great cricket venues and great cricket matches bring people together from all over the world. Cricket fans rarely travel to watch just one match, with fans often spending weeks or even months touring a country to follow their team.
A Fan’s Guide to World Cricket includes the ten major cricketing nations, as well as many more. The book covers 59 grounds in detail, listing key facts about the team including; history, their test and ODI records, championships won, and key players. The guide also includes snapshots of 55 cities and suggestions for places to see, so you can plan what to do when the cricketing day is over.
Perfect for fans planning their next trip, this book is the ultimate guide to the world’s top cricketing nations and their home grounds.
AUTHOR DETAILS
Daniel Ford is a writer, editor and publisher. He grew up watching the greats of Hampshire – Gordon Greenidge, Barry Richards and Malcolm Marshall. Years later, after emigrating to South Africa, he saw Marshall steam into the Northern Transvaal for Natal. During his 13 years in South Africa Daniel was editor of GQ and the Sunday Life magazine for Independent Newspapers.
Adam Hathaway has written about cricket for most of the papers and now writes for The People. He was Kevin Pietersen’s ghost writer during the batsman’s rocky reign as England captain and co-authored Phil Tufnell’s A to Z of Cricket and The Little Book of Rugby.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Publication date: 2nd August 2010
Price: £14.99