Following on : a memoir of teenage obsession and terrible cricket
John, Emma2016
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The summer of 1993 was a pivotal moment in English cricket: a team of ageing stalwarts and hapless debutants had just limply surrendered the Ashes again, but a promising young captain won his second match in charge with a team full of new names. England fans heralded the dawn of a new era. Instead it turned out to be the start of arguably England's worst streak in any sport. The England cricket team became infamous for their ineptitude, and a byword for British failure. By 1999, the team had reached its nadir, losing at home to New Zealand to become, officially, the worst Test team in the world, below even Zimbabwe. With spectacularly poor timing, 14-year-old Emma John chose 1993 to fall in love with cricket and, mystifyingly, with that terrible England cricket team.
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London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
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260 pages ; 24 cm
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9781472916877 (hbk)
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796.3'58796.358796.3'58'092242B/JOH
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English
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2276335
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