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Lädt ... Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricketvon Gideon Haigh
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Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records. In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could be. Crowds flocked to his club matches, English supporters cheered him on in Tests, and at his early funeral in 1915 even amidst the grief of war mourners choked the streets of Sydney. Trumper lives on, not just as the name of a stand at the SCG, or a park near his former home ground. He lives in an image that captures him mid-stroke: a daring player's graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. Reproduced countless times in cricket books and pavilions around the world, it conjures an era, an attitude cricket's first imaginings of itself and encapsulates the timeless beauty of sport like none other. If Trumper is a legend, George Beldam's 'Jumping Out' has become an icon. But that image has almost paradoxically obscured the story of its subject. Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Genius he explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. In this inventive, fresh and compelling work of history, Haigh reveals how Trumper, and Beldam's incarnation of his brilliance, are at the intersection of sport and art, history and timelessness, reality and myth. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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On the cover of Stroke of Genius is one of the most iconic pictures in cricket’s history, taken by George Beldham, Victor Trumper is caught mid-stroke, showing poise, grace, skill and power about to hit a ball long and hard. While this picture became known as ‘Jumping Out’, it is an example of the changing nature of cricket, a game that is always evolving, even when it is standing still.
Gideon Haigh, a London born Australian, is a well-respected cricket author, widely published and read by cricket fans worldwide. Now he tackles someone who not only has an iconic action photograph who even in death is still a massive legend in Australian cricket, Victor Trumper. In his day when on Ashes duty in England he was cheered by fans of both countries, something that truly is rare in modern Ashes cricket.
What we learn from Stroke of Genius that the picture has tended to obscure some of Victor Trumper’s achievements out in the middle. He examines not only the iconic photograph but also dives in to the life and legend of Trumper and tries to break down the man and the legend for those of us who never saw him play.
What we must remember is that the shot that turned Trumper into a cricketing icon was taken during the Ashes tour of 1905 at the Kennington Oval. If one looks at the picture closely, you are able to see the concentration on Trumper’s face as the famous ‘baggy green’ is pulled down in a poise of power ready for a long and hard drive.
It must be remembered that Trumper took the game of cricket from the slow, static game of the Victorian era, to a more modern game we recognise today. Throughout the book Haigh examines the evolution of cricket, and the popularity of the game in the Edwardian years right up to the death of Trumper in 1915 from Bright’s Disease.
This really is a truly wonderful book on one of the most iconic cricketers of all time and still a respected legend of Australian cricket even today. (