- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 352
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780750998819
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Brookes, Nicholas
¿A tour de force of scholarship and storytelling. There have been plenty of good books on Sri Lankan cricket, but few as comprehensive or as entertaining as An Island¿s Eleven. Ambitious in scope and lovingly compiled, it¿s packed with anecdotes, insights and surprises. An enthralling read.¿ - 2022 Booker Prize Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka
From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world¿s most remarkable cricketers ¿ larger-than-life characters who thumbed convention and played the game their own way. This is the land of pint-sized, swashbuckling batsmen, on-the-fly innovators and contorted, cryptic spinners. More so than anywhere else in the world, Sri Lankan cricket has an identity: cricket is Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka is cricket.
We all know the story of the 1996 World Cup: how a team of unfancied amateurs rose from obscurity and changed the way the game was played. Yet the lore of Sri Lankan cri