- Achetez un article sur amazon.fr (à l'exception des produits vendus sur la plate-forme Marketplace), et téléchargez en MP3 pour un euro de plus seulement la bande-originale Les Chansons d'Amour ou la compilation Classical Music for Lovers.
Offre valable du 01/02/2010 au 14/02/2010. Voir conditions sur les pages produits des albums concernés.
Les clients ayant vu cette page pourraient aussi être intéressés par ces liens commerciaux
(De quoi s'agit-il?)Descriptions du produit
Amazon.co.uk
When Pakistan levelled the 2001 two-match series with England by winning the Old Trafford Test, serious mistakes by the umpires Ed Nichols and David Shepherd, were shown to have decided the result. And as Shepherd recounts in his autobiography Shep, the controversy almost drove him out of cricket. TV replays proved that four crucial England wickets fell to no-balls, and Shep was responsible for missing three of them. One of the most popular and recognisable of the elite band of international cricket umpires was publicly castigated for repeatedly making basic mistakes.
I'd like to block out the memory of that final day forever. I was as attentive and conscientious, at least at the "business" end, as I have ever been. So how did I slip up so badly and so publicly?
It's a question he cannot fully answer, and the truth is that the cameras are now making a compelling case for seriously limiting the power of on-field umpires altogether. It's an appropriate time then to reflect on life as an endangered species. Shep is essentially a sentimental journey back through his Devon childhood, schooldays and his life as a county cricketer, which brought him naturally to officiating when that career ended. There is a nostalgic turn to much of this chronicle, not least, one suspects, because after 20 years of umpiring--having battled to reach the top--the media and technology surrounding the modern game are undermining his achievement.
Some of these tales from the middle belie his public image as the "dancing umpire", the jovial man from the West Country. Shepherd is a sharp-eyed, opinionated observer of the game, and gives his verdict on leading figures--both players and umpires, including the likes of Ian Botham, Darren Gough and Dickie Bird--and what he claims is the encroachment of "evil and greed" within his beloved sport. But Shepherd's tale is sprinkled with genuine humour, and the man who emerges is quirky in the great tradition of cricketing characters. --Alex Hankin
Book Description
David Shepherd runs his village post office in Devon. He gets up before six o’clock every day and walks around the village with his trolley delivering the village’s newspapers. He is also the world’s most senior and respected cricketing umpire. For more than twenty years he has umpired tests, county games and one day matches everywhere from Trinidad to Glamorgan, from Essex to Melbourne. He has given Geoff Boycott out, resisted appeals from Curtley Ambrose, dodged straight drives from Sachin Tendulkar, calmed down Shane Warne and signalled leg-byes in his own uniquely elegant and justly famous style. His experience of umpiring spans three decades, the list of players he has umpired, known and counts as friends reads like a cricketing Who’s Who, his knowledge of the game and his expertise is unrivalled. And he is held in rare esteem and affection by virtually everyone involved in cricket.
Beginning with an evocative account of Sheperd’s North Devon childhood the book will cover his entire career beginning with playing for Devon in the minor Counties League before joining Gloucester in 1965. He retired in 1979 and became an umpire the following year. His time as an umpire has seen cricket become dominated by money, the introduction of floodlit games and of the controversial electronic ‘third umpire’, video evidence and world-wide match fixing scandals. The book will contain informed and trenchant opinions on all these aspects of cricket, past, present and future as well as a wealth of fascinating and amusing anecdotes from a man who has stayed at the centre of the game for nearly forty years, never losing his love of the game or his sense of humour. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Cassette .
Détails sur le produit
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
|
Associer des mots-clés à ce produit(De quoi s'agit-il ?)Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris. |
Commentaires en ligne
|
Il n'y a pour l'instant aucun commentaire client.
|
|||
|
Commentaires vidéo
|
Listmania!
Rechercher des articles similaires par rubrique
Rechercher des articles similaires par thème
Commentaires
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
Votre historique récent
(Qu'est-ce ?)|
Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent. |
