{"product_id":"9781472132888","title":"That Will Be England Gone : The Last Summer of Cricket","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Henderson, Michael, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/04\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Constable,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Autobiography: sport, Sociology: sport \u0026amp; leisure, History of sport, Cricket\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781472132888\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilip Larkin's line 'that will be England gone' is the premise of this fascinating book which is about music, literature, poetry and architecture as well as cricket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeville Cardus once said there could be no summer in England without cricket. The 2019 season was supposed to be the greatest summer of cricket ever seen in England. There was a World Cup, followed by five Test matches against Australia in the latest engagement of sport's oldest rivalry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was also the last season of county cricket before the introduction in 2020 of a new tournament, The Hundred, designed to attract an audience of younger people who have no interest in the summer game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn That Will Be England Gone, Michael Henderson revisits much-loved places to see how the game he grew up with has changed since the day in 1965 that he saw the great fast bowler Fred Trueman in his pomp. He watches schoolboys at Repton, club cricketers at Ramsbottom, and professionals on the festival grounds of Chesterfield, Cheltenham and Scarborough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rolling English road takes him to Leicester for T20, to Lord's for the most ceremonial Test match, and to Taunton to watch an old cricketer leave the crease for the last time. He is enchanted at Trent Bridge, surprised at the Oval, and troubled at Old Trafford. 'Cricket,' Henderson says, 'has always been part of my other life.' There are memories of friendships with Ken Dodd, Harold Pinter and Simon Rattle, and the book is coloured throughout by a love of landscape, poetry, paintings and music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs well as reflections on his childhood hero, Farokh Engineer, and other great players, there are digressions on subjects as various as Lancashire comedians, Viennese melancholy and the films of Michael Powell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical and elegiac, That Will Be England Gone is a deeply personal tribute to cricket, summer and England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022560592025,"sku":"9781472132888","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781472132888.jpg?v=1602537410","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781472132888","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}