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Skirting the Boundary

Isabelle Duncan

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Description:For too long, women have been kept beyond the boundary. Now, they are storming the field. This is their story. Cricket is a sport noted for the richness of its literature, yet despite all that has been written on the great game there remains a yawning gap ? where are all the women? This omission may have been understandable in the early and middle part of the last century, when womenOCOs cricket existed in a twilight world, regarded as a sport for ladies who could perhaps be most tactfully described as ?unconventionalOCO. But times have changed, and Izzy DuncanOCOs groundbreaking book comes on the scene not a moment too soon. We begin in the late eighteenth century, when ladies made their first mark on cricket amid frantic betting and rowdy crowds. Then on to the highs and lows of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the contemporary superstars dominating world cricket and on the cusp of going professional. Tracing the history of the ladiesOCO game, delving into its sometimes murky past and revealing its recent explosion in popularity, Skirting the Boundary is a humorous, affectionate and charming portrayal of one of the fastest-growing global sports."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Skirting the Boundary. To get started finding Skirting the Boundary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 341

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1849546118

Description: For too long, women have been kept beyond the boundary. Now, they are storming the field. This is their story. Cricket is a sport noted for the richness of its literature, yet despite all that has been written on the great game there remains a yawning gap ? where are all the women? This omission may have been understandable in the early and middle part of the last century, when womenOCOs cricket existed in a twilight world, regarded as a sport for ladies who could perhaps be most tactfully described as ?unconventionalOCO. But times have changed, and Izzy DuncanOCOs groundbreaking book comes on the scene not a moment too soon. We begin in the late eighteenth century, when ladies made their first mark on cricket amid frantic betting and rowdy crowds. Then on to the highs and lows of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the contemporary superstars dominating world cricket and on the cusp of going professional. Tracing the history of the ladiesOCO game, delving into its sometimes murky past and revealing its recent explosion in popularity, Skirting the Boundary is a humorous, affectionate and charming portrayal of one of the fastest-growing global sports."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Skirting the Boundary. To get started finding Skirting the Boundary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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