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Cargando... Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion: A Cricket Odyssey through Latin Americapor Timothy Abraham
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'A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue' Mail on Sunday A history of Latin America through cricket Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football, rugby or baseball. In 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River Plate. The visionary cricket historian Rowland Bowen said that, during the highpoint of cricket in South America between the two World Wars, the continent could have provided the next Test nation. In Buenos Aires, where British engineers, merchants and meatpackers flocked to make their fortune, the standard of cricket was high: towering figures like Lord Hawke and Plum Warner took star-studded teams of Test cricketers to South America, only to be beaten by Argentina. A combined Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean team took on the first-class counties in England in 1932. The notion of Brazilians and Mexicans playing T20 at the Maracana or the Azteca today is not as far-fetched as it sounds. But Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is also a social history of grit, industry and nation-building in the New World. West Indian fruit workers battled yellow fever and brutal management to carve out cricket fields next to the railway lines in Costa Rica. Cricket was the favoured sport of Chile's Nitrate King. Emperors in Brazil and Mexico used the game to curry favour with Europe. The notorious Pablo Escobar even had a shadowy connection to the game. The fate of cricket in South America was symbolised by Eva Peron ordering the burning down of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club pavilion when the club refused to hand over their premises to her welfare scheme. Cricket journalists Timothy Abraham and James Coyne take us on a journey to discover this largely untold story of cricket's fate in the world's most colourful continent. Fascinating and surprising, Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is a valuable addition to cricketing and social history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Abraham and Coyne roadtrip the region, from Mexico to Patagonia, reciting the rich history of cricket in each country, its unexpected connections to world history and the state of the game today. The history of cricket in South and Central America is one of British expats arriving at a location, creating cricket clubs, which were usually the bastion of society, and actively worked to exclude everyone else from cricket. This included not just the West Indians brought over to perform the backbreaking manual labour that drove the British Empire, but any locals that showed an interest.
There's also plenty of passages attesting to cricket's one time prominence in the Americas; obviously Evita Peron burning down the Buenos Aires Cricket Club's pavilion but also a photo of the doomed Emperor of Mexico, Maximillian I wearing pad, the fact that Pablo Escobar's illegitimate son became a decent club cricketer in England, or that Pope Francis has a cricket bat in his Vatican office.
Evita burned down our pavilion could have been 5 stars but this is still one of the best books I have read this year and whether you are a cricket tragic, or a fan of social history that doesn't usually feature in the official histories of Latin America, you will find much of interest here. (