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The Final Test: The Uncertain Future of Cricket’s First-Class Game

Autor Huw Turbervill
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2025

Apreciem modul în care The Final Test debutează nu ca o simplă analiză statistică, ci ca o călătorie personală a autorului Huw Turbervill, care ne invită să reflectăm asupra momentului în care Graham Gooch și emisiunea 'Grandstand' au definit pasiunea unei generații pentru cricket. Considerăm că această lucrare este mai mult decât o cronică sportivă; este un manifest pentru supraviețuirea formatului tradițional de cinci zile într-o eră dominată de ritmul alert al formatelor scurte. Organizată cronologic și tematic, cartea ne poartă prin deceniile de aur ale sportului, de la eleganța anilor '80 până la fenomenul modern 'Bazball', oferind în fiecare capitol perspective unice prin interviuri cu titani precum Viv Richards sau Richard Hadlee. Huw Turbervill își folosește experiența acumulată ca editor la The Cricketer pentru a pune întrebări incomode despre expansiunea IPL și a turneului The Hundred, care par să sufoce calendarul internațional. Această abordare continuă preocupările autorului din lucrări anterioare, precum The Cricketer Anthology of the Ashes, unde analiza rivalităților istorice servea drept fundament pentru înțelegerea identității acestui sport. Pe aceeași linie cu Test Cricket de Tim Wigmore, care oferă o istorie analitică a formatului, volumul de față se diferențiază printr-un ton mult mai personal și o notă de nostalgie asumată, similară cu stilul lui Henry Blofeld din Sharing My Love of Cricket, dar cu un accent critic mult mai pronunțat asupra politicilor actuale care guvernează sportul. Este o lectură care echilibrează perfect respectul pentru tradiție cu realismul necesar supraviețuirii în secolul XXI.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399417525
ISBN-10: 1399417525
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: Black and white integrated images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Descriere

'A compelling book. Test cricket is hanging on. It's a worry' - Graham Gooch

'Huw Turbervill is the ultimate passionate polemicist for the Test format' - David Gower OBE

THE EDITOR OF THE CRICKETER GOES ON A SOUL-SEARCHING JOURNEY TO DISCOVER WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR TEST CRICKET

The Final Test is a love letter to cricket and a manifesto in favour of the Test format. Taking readers on a nostalgic journey, Huw Turbervill shares stories of cricket past and present and of the incredible characters the sport has encountered over the years. In exclusive interviews, he speaks to the likes of Viv Richards, Graham Gooch, David Gower, Merv Hughes, Richard Hadlee and more.

In a tumultuous sporting landscape, the cricket community, however, seems undecided about the future of Test cricket. The IPL is expanding, The Hundred still seems to dominate the thoughts of English cricket's controllers, and the men's Ashes in 2023 was relegated to a narrow window. As T20 keeps growing internationally and domestically like Japanese knotweed, attracting more fans than ever before, is it still possible for the longer format to retain its wistful shine?

Huw asks a five-star panel of cricketers, commentators and writers if Test cricket can truly survive the next decade. Shouldn't we keep a tradition filled with memories of days gone by? Could we instead try to maintain a healthy balance of formats all year round? How about accepting that times need to change? Are Huw and others too nostalgic and conservative? This book is the ultimate soul-searching journey around the great game.

Cuprins

Introduction

1. How people learned to stop worrying and love T20
2. Testing thoughts
3. David Gower and my golden years
4. The Sky effect
5. Graham Gooch and Grandstand
6. Open a window for Test cricket
7. Why can't I be more like Jarrod?
8. Viv Richards: the king and I
9. Test cricket before 1980
10. Farokh Engineer and India
11. Test cricket in the 1980s
12. My love of county cricket
13. The Hundred, decisively divisive
14. Mudassar Nazar and Pakistan
15. Test cricket in the 1990s
16. Jack Russell, the artist
17. Test cricket in the 2000s
18. Merv Hughes coming in off his long run
19. Test cricket in the 2010s
20. Richard Hadlee, the prince of New Zealand
21. 2020 to . Bazball and beyond
22. International white-ball cricket
23. At home with the Topleys
24. My love of club cricket
25. Cricket journalism
26. Cricket and my family

Conclusion: Let's talk up Test cricket
References
Bibliography
Picture credits
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

As cricket expands into ever more formats and franchise leagues, more and more voices are to be heard; but the editor of The Cricketer should always be listened to. Huw Turbervill is Test cricket's spokesperson.
Test cricket is the foundation on which cricket is based and I believe the most important format that must be protected and preserved at all costs. However, I do believe with the rise, success and importance of one-day and T20 cricket, all three formats must learn to co-exist but not at the expense of each other. Huw's love of cricket and especially Test cricket is to be admired. To bring this book to life with the support of so many wonderful contributors with varied opinions, will add great interest and appeal to readers.
Test cricket is cricket at its best. The great players judge themselves even in the current era by their achievements in Tests. The white ball is squeezing it hard and we have to defend the place of Tests in the global calendar. Huw Turbervill is the ultimate passionate polemicist for the Test format with a zeal that manages to weave both George Orwell and Basil Fawlty into his arguments.
I agree with a lot of the comments being made in this compelling book. T20 is relentlessly killing 50-over cricket, and having a successful Test side is no longer the priority for many countries. Test cricket is hanging on. It's a worry.
Nostalgic, passionate and a timely and well-written reminder of the grave danger in which the all-reaching tentacles of T20 have placed Test cricket
The author ... argues persuasively why Test cricket is so important and attractive.
A passionate paean to the red-ball game
exceptionally well-argued
The Final Test is a passionate, enjoyable read. a cry from the heart of a besotted cricket lover fearing for the future of his beloved red-ball game
This book is the product of careful research and deep thought. It is a love letter that understands the dangers sometimes inherent in love. It is exceptionally well argued and I would recommend it to you wholeheartedly
As editor of The Cricketer, Huw Turbervill is perfectly placed both to express opinions on the state of the game today and to entice the great and the good to share their own views. his language frequently hits the bull's-eye.
A very good and emotional read.
Right up my street