Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion: A Cricket Odyssey through Latin America

Author: Timothy Abraham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue' Mail on Sunday A history of Latin America through cricket Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football, rugby or baseball. In 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River...Read more