More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

Author	John Major
Language	English
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	400
ISBN	9780007280117

More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years is a 2007 book about the history of cricket written by former British prime minister John Major. It was published by HarperCollins.

Background

John Major had been known to have a life long love of cricket.^[1] After losing the 1997 United Kingdom general election, he went to the Oval for an afternoon of cricket.^[2] Major would become the President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 2000 to 2001 (and Honorary Life Vice-president since 2002). The launch of the book was done at the Oval in a room named after himself.^[3]

Content

Major traces the history of the game from its nebulae origins in the medieval games "creag" and "club-ball", through its denunciation by the clergy and violence in the 17th and 18th century, to the exuberance of Victorian players, concluding at the end of the first world war.^[2]^[4]

Reception

Roger Mosey, writing in The Guardian found that Major's enjoyment of the game shone through his history of it, and particularly enjoyed Major's personalisation the narrative.^[1] Historian Dominic Sandbrook, in The Daily Telegraph, was also positive of the book, finding it "very charming and quintessentially English".^[2] Jack Williams, of The Independent, was more critical, finding that the biographical approach taken by Major resulted in "a potted history of a particular time in a chapter's first pages without any explanation of the effects of social and economic changes on cricket" and opining that academic historians would find the background history to be simplistic.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Mosey, Roger (19 May 2007). "Playing a straight bat". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sandbrook, Dominic (19 May 2007). "A Politician addicted to spin". The Daily Telegraph. p. 183. Retrieved 26 August 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Briggs, Simon (17 May 2007). "Lara turns into team player". The Daily Telegraph. p. 60. Retrieved 26 August 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Jack (25 May 2007). "No Spin, but little bounce". The Independent. p. 107. Retrieved 26 August 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e John Major
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1990–1997) Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1987–1989) Foreign Secretary (1989) Chancellor of the Exchequer (1989–1990)
Politics	Premiership Major ministry First, 1990–1992 Second, 1992–1997 Shadow Cabinet One-nation conservatism Huntingdonshire Huntingdon
National	Budgets 1991 budget 1992 budget March 1993 budget November 1993 budget 1994 budget 1995 budget 1996 budget Citizen's Charter Charter Mark Cones Hotline Early 1990s recession Black Wednesday National Lottery Further and Higher Education Act 1992 Grant-maintained schools Maastricht Rebels 1993 Newbury by-election Northern Ireland peace process Downing Street mortar attack Downing Street Declaration 1993 reviews of the British honours system Council Tax Child Support Agency 1993 vote of confidence Back to Basics Privatisation of British Rail Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1995 Conservative Party leadership election Cullen Report (Dunblane massacre) Cash for Questions Committee on Standards in Public Life Arms-to-Iraq affair Scott Report United Kingdom BSE outbreak Wirral South by-election Resignation Honours
International	Gulf War Iraqi no-fly zones Sanctions against Iraq Harare Declaration Maastricht Treaty Bosnian War Operation Gabriel
General elections	1992 1997
European Parliament Election	1994
Party elections	1990 1995
Books	John Major: The Autobiography (1999) More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years (2007) My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall (2012)
Family	Norma Major (wife) Terry Major-Ball (brother) Tom Major-Ball (father)
Cultural depictions	Thatcher: The Final Days (TV, 1991) Independence Day UK (Radio, 1996) Margaret (TV, 2009) The Iron Lady (Film, 2011) The Audience (Play, 2013) The Crown season 5 (TV, 2022)
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