Cricket's Great All-Rounders by Kersi Meher-Homji
Cricket's Great All-Rounders (Illustrated Cricket Survey in Dust Jacket)
A Illustrated Survey of Cricket's Finest All-Rounders Across Three Centuries and Nine Test Countries
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Cricket's Great All-Rounders: The Greatest across Three Centuries and Nine Countries
- Author: Kersi Meher-Homji
- Publisher: New Holland
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN-13: 9781741106428
- Binding: Publisher's maroon cloth hardcover with white lettering to the front board, under a printed dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Large illustrated hardcover, roughly quarto size, with black-and-white and colour photographs throughout. Foreword by Alan Davidson.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The maroon cloth boards are clean and square with white lettering and no visible wear. The spine is clear and undamaged.
- Interior: The pages are clean and bright, with no foxing, marks or writing. The binding appears tight. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and colour photographs.
- The Dust Jacket: Present and complete, in glossy cream printed stock. The jacket is clean, with slight toning or yellowing along the edges and on the back panel. There is light residue from a removed price sticker at the lower left of the back panel, beside the barcode. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published by New Holland in 2008, Cricket's Great All-Rounders: The Greatest across Three Centuries and Nine Countries surveys the players who could turn a match with either bat or ball. It is presented as the first book devoted to the subject, covering all-rounders in Tests and One-Day Internationals from George Giffen and Monty Noble to Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Symonds.
The survey also gives space to wicket-keeper all-rounders such as Rod Marsh, Alan Knott and Adam Gilchrist, and closes with a section of snippets and statistics. Alan Davidson contributed the foreword.
Profusely illustrated with photographs from different eras, it is a handsome reference for the cricket shelf and a useful companion for readers who enjoy comparing players across generations and nations.
Author Profile: Kersi Meher-Homji
Kersi Meher-Homji is an Australian cricket writer who moved from India to Australia in 1970. A scientist by profession and a cricket statistician by hobby, he has written some seventeen books on the game.
His other titles include Out for a Duck (1993), Six Appeal (1996) and The Waugh Twins (1998). He was awarded an OAM in the June 2022 honours list.
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