Description
| Product ID: | 9781801503884 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | All-India and Down Under |
| Subtitle: | Peace, Partition and the Game of Cricket |
| Authors: | Author: Richard Knott |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, Cricket, Cricket, England, India, c 1945 to c 1960 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating All-India and Down Under is the story of two dramatic cricket tours. All-India’s to England was its last before partition, while the MCC’s trip to regain the Ashes saw the war-weary Englishmen struggle. In those early years of peace, the return of cricket was welcome, but the sombre backdrop was the end of Britain’s Empire. All-India and Down Under is the dramatic story of two cricket tours undertaken in the aftermath of the Second World War. For seven years the war had put the careers of England’s cricketers on hold. Then, in 1946, England played three Tests against ‘All-India’. However, it proved to be the last such tour: by mid-1947, Indian partition had cut the country in two, a process that was violent and bloody. While the tourists were in England, struggling in a cold, wet summer, their own country was in turmoil. As that tour drew to a close in September, the MCC sent a party of war-weary cricketers to Australia to play the first Ashes series since 1938. The English were ill-prepared, some scarcely out of uniform, while others carried the physical and mental scars of the war years. For the aging captain, Walter Hammond, it would prove a tour too far. The book follows the cricketing drama of both tours amid the political uncertainty of the time, with a Labour government struggling to disentangle Britain from its Empire. |
| Imprint Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-06 |
