The Modern Game.
Updated to include the 1996 World Cup.
'The Appeal of Cricket - the Modern Game' is a razor sharp and richly entertaining commentary on the major events in cricket over recent years. In his hard-hitting and highly constructive book, Richie Benaud tackles many of the controversies in the game with the same blend of dry humour that characterizes his widely popular TV appearances. He considers the changes brought to the game by TV and the technological revolution and talks of the thrill of watching young stars like Shane Warne, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar.
Benaud was the first cricketer to perform the Test match double of 2,000 runs and 200 wickets, later joined by Garfield Sobers, Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee. He is one of only eleven Australians to make 10,000 runs and have 500 victims in first class cricket. Captain in 28 of the 63 Tests in which he played for Australia, he is in a unique position to reflect on the future of the game.
