A bat-and-ball, a bowler, the third man: to many Americans, cricket sounds like a confused jumble of several contemporary sports. The history of cricket in Wales, however, dates back to 1783—when the first recorded match on Welsh soil took place and when the principality’s culture and social history forever took a turn toward cricking nationhood. Cricket in Wales is a remarkable illustrated history of the sport, tracing its development from the nineteenth-century – where it provided a common bond and unifying activity for the diverse peoples who found their way to booming Welsh cities and towns – to its current favor as the game of choice at folk festivals, rural picnics, and family gatherings. In addition to recreating the conditions and aspects of the game’s history that have generated such ardent fandom among the Welsh, this volume also considers the relationship between England—where cricket is the national sport—and Wales, who to this day still field a single representative team for the international circuit despite sometimes contentious relations, demonstrating how nationalist loyalties fuel the fire behind this engaging sport and the citizens who adore it.

Cricket in Wales: An Illustrated History

History

Hignell, Andrew

Europe

University of Wales Press

Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates (Sport in the Global Society)

A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Routledge

The History of Glamorgan County Cricket Club: The Official Centenary History (Christopher Helm County Cricket)

Sports & Outdoors

LEWIS, Tony

Other Team Sports

A C Black Publishers Ltd

<p>This is a biography of a remarkable sportsman. An internationalist at rugby, hockey and crickey, Maurice Turnbull was one of the finest of a generation of gentlemen athletes. He was killed serving in the Second World War.</p>

Turnbull: A Welsh Sporting Hero

Biographies & Memoirs

Tempus Pub Ltd

Glamorgan Grounds: The Homes of Welsh Cricket

Tempus

100 Greats: Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Thomas, Adrian

Miscellaneous

<p>Including the most celebrated English first-class umpires from the late 19th century to the present, this book profiles the playing and officiating careers of 100 umpires including Dickie Bird, David Shepherd and Peter Willey.</p>

100 First-Class Umpires

This is a photographic and narrative account of one of the best cricket seasons in living history, a season in which Worcestershire eventually took the County Championship and Australia narrowly won one of the closest ever Ashes series, and household names like Geoffrey Boycott and Garry Sobers took center stage.

The Summer of '64

Barrie Meyer has had a lifetime in professional sport, as a cricketer with Gloucestershire, a footballer with Bristol Rovers and Bristol City, and twenty-five years as a first-class and Test match umpire. This autobiography reflects on his extraordinary career in sport. It offers a different perspective on cricket in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.

Barrie Meyer

NPI Media Group

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