Cricket on the Edge

2019 ONE BIG YEAR FOR ENGLAND CRICKET England won the cricket World Cup on 14 July. They followed that with a pulsating Ashes Test series over 25 days, marginally shaded by Australia. The third Test produced one of the great innings in the history of Test cricket - Ben Stokes's 135 not out. In the background, the well established one-day competition took place, the newly established T20 Blast ended in a cliffhanger on Finals Day, the long established County Championship provided days of absorbing cricket. For the two contenders for the title, Essex and Somerset, it came down to the last session of the last game of the long season.This book shows how England cricket teams draw on county performances in all formats, red ball and white ball. It contains a fascinating account of the World Cup's twists and turns involving all 10 finalists, and sheds light on cricket's global ambitions.Raging through it all was the debate on the merits of the ECB's re-boost of Blast cricket as The Hundred, inflaming passions and generating fierce argument.THIS BOOK TELLS IT ALL 216 pages, 76,000 words, 36 illustrations