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Crash Bang Wallop: Twenty20 - A History of the Brief Game

Crash Bang Wallop: Twenty20 - A History of the Brief Game

by Martyn Hindley (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $4.34
Synopsis

Twenty20 cricket was launched in 2003 as a potent cocktail of cricket, colour, rock'n' roll and razzamatazz - a kind of concert sport to draw the Playstation generation back to the game. The hype was greeted by the usual harbingers of doom, predicting the end of cricket as we know it, meanwhile crowds flocked to enjoy a modern form of the game in tune with the twenty-first century need for instant and constant entertainment. Crash! Bang! Wallop! circles the winners' enclosure in the World Championship of September 2007, wades into the reggae parties of Antigua and catches up with the biggest names in the sport to definitively find out what impact Twenty20 has had on cricket around the world.Kiwi legend Martin Crowe reflects on the humble beginnings of Cricket Max - the predecessor of Twenty20 - England stars Geraint Jones and Marcus Trescothick look back upon England's historic first ever international and Sri Lanka's destructive batsman Sanath Jayasuriya is part of an international all-star cast list offering their opinions on this new, worldwide phenomena. How, in a World Championship year, did a rugby league megastar end up playing in Australia's national competition? Why did one domestic final in Pakistan finish just before 2am? And what possessed a Texan businessman to buy a whole competition in the Caribbean, prompting a power struggle in the West Indian game? From the dressing rooms, the cricket fields and the divided halls of power within the game, Crash!Bang!Wallop! weighs up whether Twenty20 is a fad or the future for cricket and ponders the greed that threatens to strangle the golden goose.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 204
 Publisher: Know the Score Books
Published: 12 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 1905449887
ISBN 13: 9781905449880

Media Reviews
Just occasionally one reads a cricket book which has its finger on the pulse of what is actually happening at the time. Twenty20, like it or not, is going to change the cricket world no less comprehensively than the Packer Revolution did 30 years ago - a point well made in this book with suitable comparisons...The front cover sums up the impact that Twenty20 has had with stumps flying, jubilant fans, Freddie Flintoff and a young Australian lady's mammaries. This is the way that cricket now is, apparently! For anyone who wishes to understand the new phenomenon, this book is a must. It is readable, cheerful, accurate, honest and at GBP9.99 is hardly expensive. - The Scottish Cricketer. an enthralling journey ... this must read piece of work ... The most refreshing parts of the book for my part were the details of how the world has taken to a concept adapted from Martin Crowe's introduction of Cricket Max in the early 1990's - Graham Hardcastle, Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Outstanding - Hindley is a recent addition to the Test Match Special reporting team but only well known to those who follow their cricket via BBC North-West. It is often a strength of cricket journalism that the writers are 100-cap merchants who have seen and done it all and learned to put a sentence together along the way. Not so here, as this story requires open-mindedness and a willingness to leave the physical and mental comfort zones in pursuit of unheralded contributors - characteristics often absent in some of our more comfortable journalists. There is a real value in an enthusiastic narrator telling the tale from start to finish without cynicism or endless self-referencing and Hindley provides an absorbing, engaging story - Peter May, Cricket 365. 4 ****. Wonderful...Martyn Hyndley is not yet an established cricket writer but will no doubt become one - I await his next offering with great anticipation - Cricketweb.net.
Author Bio
Martyn Hindley has been the Cricket Correspondent in the North-West for BBC local radio since 2006, charting the fortunes of Lancashire. He learned his trade as a freelance journalist on football and rugby league, covering his first cricket match in 2002 when England played India in the Headingley Test Match. Reporting on the game is seen as an adequate compensation for having no talent at it, having featured briefly for Astley and Tyldesley under-13s in the Bolton Association during his youth.Martyn has a broad interest in European football as well and is a regular commentator on Champions League matches for UEFA.com, for whom he has also presented regular podcasts. His passion for Leigh RMI Football Club is unfathomable but admirable given their status as a side in the Conference North but he has plenty of non-sporting pursuits to occupy his spare time including travel (favourite places include Kiev, Ukraine) and swimming.