Ashley Mallett
Auteur de Clarrie Grimmett: The Bradman of Spin
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Œuvres de Ashley Mallett
Trumper, the illustrated biography : the greatest batsman of cricket's golden age (1985) 14 exemplaires
The black lords of summer : the story of the 1868 Aboriginal tour of England and beyond (2002) 11 exemplaires
The Diggers' Doctor: The fortunate life of Col. Donald Beard AM, RFD, ED [Retd] (2014) 7 exemplaires
Neil Harvey: The Last Invincible: Australian Champion Test Batsman, Selector, Record Breaker and Last Of Bradman's… 1 exemplaire
Nugget - Man of the Century: The Remarkable Story of 'Nugget' Rees, Australian Cricket's Peter Pan (2009) 1 exemplaire
The Boys from St Francis 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Mallett, Ashley Alexander
- Date de naissance
- 1945-07-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Professions
- Cricketer
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Membres
- 109
- Popularité
- #178,011
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 40
The author Ashley Mallett is a former Australian spinner himself so has a particularly strong insight into the mind of an Australian spin bowler. He’s also been a journalist and writer of longstanding, so you would expect a well-written book. It’s disappointing therefore to see the resulting book, which doesn’t do the Bradman of spin justice.
For starters there’s an overly long and somewhat tedious section imagining Grimmett bowling to Dean Jones before a potted history of Grimmett with little in the way of incisive examinations into the life of a champion spin bowler (be of Grimmett with little in the way of incisive examinations into the life of a champion spin bowler (beyond the fact that Grimmett bowled with an orange in his backyard) or the level of penmanship expected of a highly experienced author.… (plus d'informations)