Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019-Lawrence Booth

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019Author(s): Lawrence Booth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wisden\nISBN-13: 9781472964052, 978-1472964052\nSynopsis\n*Standard format hardback*\n\nWisden 2019 charts the rise and rise of the England one-day team as they head towards a home World Cup in the summer. It also revisits the 1979 tournament, when England made it to the final, but lost out to Clive Lloyd's all-conquering West Indians.\n\nJon Hotten lifts the covers on the tricky life of the groundsman, under pressure from player and administrator alike, while Richard Hobson examines how cricket began again in 1919, a few months after the end of the First World War. \n\nJonathan Liew considers the traditional measure of the batsman's art, 250 years after the first century was recorded.\n\nThere's a look beyond the cricket ground, too, now that Imran Khan, one of the towering figures of Pakistan cricket, has become prime minister. Peter Oborne andk