Before the Lights Went Out: The 1912 Triangular Tournament - Hardcover

Patrick Ferriday

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Synopsis

The 1912 Triangular Tournament was the culmination of the work of cricketers in three continents over half a century. The county game in England, the inter-colonials' in Australia and the cricket-loving Randlords in South Africa all led to international competition which then took on a life of its own. As cricket adopted an increasingly business-like nature, fortunes were made and lost during the last decades of Victoria's reign and by the time the new century dawned the game had reached a level of organisation and professionalism undreamt of only three decades earlier. The vast wealth and influence of South African businessman Abe Bailey enabled him to indulge his ambition of bringing the three test-playing nations together. The summer of 1912 would show how far the game had come....

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