Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet

WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016;;Fire in Babylon tells the full extraordinary story of the West Indies cricket team that brought the world to its knees and a people to its feet;;Inspired by the Stevan Riley film.

WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016; ;SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD;;‘I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West Indies cricket history.’ ;Clive Lloyd;;Cricket had never been played like this. Cricket had never meant so much. ;;The West Indies had always had brilliant cricketers; it hadn’t always had brilliant cricket teams. But in 1974, a man called Clive Lloyd began to lead a side which would at last throw off the shackles that had hindered the region for centuries. Nowhere else had a game been so closely connected to a people’s past and their future hopes; nowhere else did cricket liberate a people like it did in the Caribbean.;;For almost two decades, Clive Lloyd and then Vivian Richards led the batsmen and bowlers who changed the way cricket was played and changed the way a whole nation - which existed only on a cricket pitch - saw itself. ;;With their pace like fire and their scorching batting, these sons of cane-cutters and fishermen brought pride to a people which had been stifled by 300 years of slavery, empire and colonialism. Their cricket roused the Caribbean and antagonised the game’s traditionalists. ;;Told by the men who made it happen and the people who watched it unfold, Fire in Babylon is the definitive story of the greatest team that sport has known.