SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019
Contrasting sorts of biography characteristics strongly with Moeen Ali’s books, iconic commentators John Arlott and Jim Swanton, and English cricket itself covered. Completing the list is a collection of essays from Mike Brearley, a glance lower back at English traveling facets in the period after 1945, and, properly timed as any other Ashes summer beckons, a press insider’s forensic analysis of Australia’s fall from cricketing grace. This year’s Chair of Judges Robert Winder stated: “There turned into lots of head-scratching before we should agree on a shortlist. Several true books were unlucky to miss out. No doubt there could be extra robust conversations before we pick a winner – the Decision Review System might be busy.
But the range of titles beneath attention, from club to usa, from fiction to non-fiction, from Sydney to Swansea through Durban and Delhi – reminds us that cricket is a recreation that hums with first-rate writing.” The opposition, run with the aid of the Cricket Society since 1970 and in partnership with MCC since 2009, is for books nominated via MCC and Cricket Society Members and fairly regarded by writers and publishers. The last 12 months’ winner became Harry Pearson’s Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine. Mark Nicholas won in 2017 with A Beautiful Game: My Love Affair with Cricket. The £3,000 prize for the winner and certificate for all of the shortlisted books may be presented at an awards evening inside the Long Room at Lord’s on Tuesday, the sixteenth of April.
A sell-out target audience of 200 humans will comprise Members of the Cricket Society and MCC, the shortlisted authors, publishers, and some of nowadays’s finest cricket writers and newshounds. SHORTLIST Moeen, Moeen Ali with Mihir Bose (Allen and Unwin) On Cricket, Mike Brearley (Constable) Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket, Stephen Fay and David Kynaston (Bloomsbury) Steve Smith’s Men, Behind Australian Cricket’s Fall, Geoff Lemon (Hardie Grant) Ambassadors of Goodwill: On tour with the MCC 1946-71, Mark Peel (Pitch Publishing) England, The Biography: The Story of English Cricket, Simon Wilde (Simon and Schuster)