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Wisden Anthology 1978-2006
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Published January 1, 2007
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August 2, 2018
This book is a nostalgic trip down memory lane and beyond.
It is a selection of the best Wisden articles curated across a 30 year period from 1978-2006, arranged thematically to give a sense of the game's changing history - from Packer’s World Series Cricket to the fast-evolving World Cup, including brilliant sections on the different counties and the significant players of the era.
If you want a sampler to whet your appetite, you only need to read the below quote on Tendulkar.
"More demanding is his nation, for when Tendulkar plays, India stills, it quietens, till it is almost possible to hear a collective exhalation with every shot. In a land where governments stutter, the economy stagnates and life itself is an enduring struggle against failure, he is deliverance. For most of a billion people, unmoved by any other sport, he is escape as much as he is hope, standing like some solitary national advertisement of success. Tendulkar is not allowed to fail."
It is a selection of the best Wisden articles curated across a 30 year period from 1978-2006, arranged thematically to give a sense of the game's changing history - from Packer’s World Series Cricket to the fast-evolving World Cup, including brilliant sections on the different counties and the significant players of the era.
If you want a sampler to whet your appetite, you only need to read the below quote on Tendulkar.
"More demanding is his nation, for when Tendulkar plays, India stills, it quietens, till it is almost possible to hear a collective exhalation with every shot. In a land where governments stutter, the economy stagnates and life itself is an enduring struggle against failure, he is deliverance. For most of a billion people, unmoved by any other sport, he is escape as much as he is hope, standing like some solitary national advertisement of success. Tendulkar is not allowed to fail."
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