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Huw Turbervill

    The Cricketer Book of the Ashes
    The Final Test
    • The Final Test

      The Uncertain Future of Cricket's First-Class Game

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      The narrative explores the precarious future of Test cricket amid the rapid rise of T20 formats and lucrative white-ball tournaments. The editor of The Cricketer embarks on a journey, reflecting on pivotal moments like the final Test at The Oval in 2022, which symbolizes the longer format's challenges. Engaging with prominent figures, including players and commentators, the book delves into the ongoing debate between traditionalists and progressives, ultimately questioning whether Test cricket can endure in a changing sporting landscape.

      The Final Test
    • Cricket's most prestigious magazine delivers its unique take on the sport's most cherished rivalry, the Ashes. This superb anthology showcases 100 years of peerless writing on the Ashes from The Cricketer magazine. Insightful new contributions from today's best cricket writers including Gideon Haigh, Simon Hughes and Huw Turbervill sit alongside vintage reports, features and comment pieces from greats including Pelham 'Plum' Warner, EW Swanton and Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Relive the brilliance of Don Bradman, Harold Larwood, Jim Laker, Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Botham, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff and others in this fresh new take on the giants of the game. Featuring Simon Hughes' ultimate Ashes XI, Gideon Haigh's five greatest series and lively detours into the controversies and scandals which have defined sport's greatest contest, this definitive history from the world's foremost cricket magazine is as colourful as the Ashes themselves

      The Cricketer Book of the Ashes