The World Service Book of World Cricket - Mike Popham

For centuries, England exported its game of cricket around the world. Of all colonial legacies, cricket has proved perhaps the most enduring and adaptable. Each test nation assimilated cricket in its own way, evolving it beyond a game into what has become in this century a focus of politics, passionate nationhood, rivalry and revenge.;The South African journalist Donald Woods examines the social and political background to cricket in the test-playing nations in the context of the 1992 World Cup, drawing on the special knowledge of a commentator from each nation, and with contributions by Qamar Ahmed, Mihir Bose, Hugh Crosskill, Ralph Dellor, Ian Galloway, Brian Johnson, Bob Nixon and G.C. Perera. In a year which has marked the return of South Africa to international cricket, Woods also gives his analysis of the political background to South African cricket - a turbulent world of which he has had such traumatic personal experience. In Part 2 of this book Woods reflects on the excitements, surprises and disappointments of the 1992 World Cup. The complete scorecard for each match is given. The book ends with Woods' thoughts on the future of cricket as an international game.