Crash! Bang! Wallop!: Twenty20: A History of the Brief Game

Twenty20 cricket was launched in 2003 as a potent cocktail of cricket, colour, rock'n' roll and razzamatazz - a kind of concert sport to draw the Playstation generation back to the game. The hype was greeted by the usual harbingers of doom, predicting the end of cricket as we know it, meanwhile crowds flocked to enjoy a modern form of the game in tune with the twenty-first century need for instant and constant entertainment. "Crash! Bang! Wallop!" circles the winners' enclosure in the World Championship of September 2007, wades into the reggae parties of Antigua and catches up with the biggest names in the sport to definitively find out what impact Twenty20 has had on cricket around the world.Kiwi legend Martin Crowe reflects on the humble beginnings of Cricket Max - the predecessor of Twenty20 - England stars Geraint Jones and Marcus Trescothick look back upon England's historic first ever international and Sri Lanka's destructive batsman Sanath Jayasuriya is part of an international all-star cast list offering their opinions on this new, worldwide phenomena. How, in a World Championship year, did a rugby league megastar end up playing in Australia's national competition?