Another Bloody Day in Paradise - Hardcover

Keating, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0233974008 ISBN 13: 9780233974002

Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1981

Synopsis

About this book: Published in 1981 in hardback by André Deutsch, and 177pp long, 'Another Bloody Day in Paradise' ranks as one of the best cricket books ever written and is widely respected by cricket players as an excellent book. There has never been a cricket tour quite like the 1981 West Indies Test Match and the England team's trip to the Caribbean to play the Test Match series certainly made much more than back page news. Frank Keating lived with the England team through those three dramatic months, sharing their jokes and fears, their parties and hangovers. He has drawn an affectionate, often humorous picture of just what it was like for his friends to be facing a uniquely fierce bombardment from, arguable, the strongest team the game has ever known. He has chronicled too how the England team coped with the frustrations of political wrangling and the tragic shock of Ken Barrington's death. From early days of anticipation in Antigua to the final lap in Kingston, Jamaica, Keating tells us of the individual triumphs and depressions until we feel that we are there too, whether sitting in the pavilion as Sir Geoffrey takes off his pads or next to Alan Smith, the manager, as he plays his high-level diplomacy...As well, Keating has time to cast his eye over the whole of the cricket-playing Caribbean: to evoke Constantine, Headley, Ramadhin and the incomparable Three Ws, right up to the giants of today (the early 1980s that is). Frank Keating, increasingly well-known for his brilliant writing on sport in the Guardian, will delight his devotees with this infectiously amusing and sometimes poignant portrayal of three extraordinary months. Contents: Fasten Your Seatbelts; And Getting Paid for it too...; You Want Your Life Brightening?; Which is Mr. Jackman's Room?; Prepare Yourself for a Shock; A Long Way from Tipperary; Another Captain? Scoreboard and Averages

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0233974008
• ISBN 13: 9780233974002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224