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{{Infobox Cricketer |
{{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
flag = Flag of Australia.svg |
| name = The Glass Bead Game
nationality = Australian |
| title_orig = Das Glasperlenspiel
country = Australia |
| translator = Richard and Clara Winston
country abbrev = AUS |
| image =
name = Andrew Symonds |
| author = [[Hermann Hesse]]
picture = Andrew Symonds.jpg |
| cover_artist =
batting style = Right hand bat |
| country = [[Switzerland]]
bowling style = Right arm [[off spin|off break]] <br /> Right arm [[fast bowling|medium]] |
| language = [[German language|German]]
balls = true |
| series =
tests = 13 |
| genre = [[Novel]]
test runs = 518 |
| publisher = [[Holt, Rinehart and Winston]]
test bat avg = 27.26|
| release_date = [[1943]] (Eng. trans. [[1969]])
test 100s/50s = 1/2 |
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
test top score = 156 |
| pages = 558 pp
test overs = 1080 |
| isbn = NA <!-- published before ISBN system -->
test wickets = 11 |
| preceded_by =
test bowl avg = 44.36 |
| followed_by =
test 5s = - |
}}
test 10s = - |
test best bowling = 3/50 |
test catches/stumpings = 13/- |
ODIs = 164 |
ODI runs = 4096 |
ODI bat avg = 38.64 |
ODI 100s/50s = 5/21 |
ODI top score = 156 |
ODI overs = 5540 |
ODI wickets = 122 |
ODI bowl avg = 37.96 |
ODI 5s = 1 |
ODI 10s = - |
ODI best bowling = 5/18 |
ODI catches/stumpings = 70/- |
date = April 10|
year = 2007 |
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7702.html}}


'''Andrew Symonds''' (born [[9 June]], [[1975]], [[Birmingham]], [[England]]) is an [[Australian cricket team|Australian]] [[cricket]]er of [[West Indian]] [[heritage]] who moved to [[Australia]] with his parents, after they adopted him, when he was one year old.
'''''The Glass Bead Game''''' ([[German language|German]]: '''''Das Glasperlenspiel''''') is the last work and [[magnum opus]] of the German author [[Hermann Hesse]]. Begun in [[1931]] and published in [[Switzerland]] in [[1943]], the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature.


Symonds is a talented, powerful, [[right-handed]] [[batsman]]. He can also [[bowling (cricket)|bowl]] [[off spin]] or medium pace, making him a good [[all-rounder]]. He is an exceptional [[fielder]], with a [[report]] prepared by [[Cricinfo]] in late 2005 showing that since the [[1999 Cricket World Cup]], he had effected the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fourth highest success rate.<ref>{{cite web| title = Statistics - Run outs in ODIs | last = Basevi| first = Trevor| url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/224487.html| date= [[2005-11-08]]| accessdate = 2007-02-05| publisher [[Cricinfo]]}}</ref> He is very agile for his size and weight (medium-heavy build; 187cm tall), has excellent reflexes, is able to take catches well and has a powerful and accurate throwing arm. His nickname is '''Roy''', shortened from the name Leroy, after a coach from early in his career believed he resembled local [[Brisbane]] [[National Basketball League (Australia)|NBL]] hero [[Leroy Loggins]].<ref>[http://graphics.foxsports.com.au/multimedia/0611_fordashes/ashes-player-profile-2.swf Fox Sports Ashes Player Profiles], retrieved [[27 December]] 2006</ref>
"Glass Bead Game" is a literal translation of the German title. The title has also been translated as '''''Magister Ludi'''''. "Magister Ludi," [[Latin]] for "master of the game," is the name of an honorific title awarded to the book's central character. ''Magister Ludi'' can also be seen as a [[pun]]: ''lud'' is a Latin stem meaning both "game" and "school."


Since making his debut for the [[Queensland Bulls|Queensland state team]] in the [[1994]]-[[1995]] season, Symonds has scored over 10,000 runs in [[first-class cricket]].
==Plot summary==
{{spoiler}}
''The Glass Bead Game'' takes place during the 23rd century. The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Hesse mentions the political violence of the 20th century in passing, but his main critique of that century is encapsulated by his dismissive name for it: the Age of the [[Feuilleton]], an intellectually superficial and decadent period, when [[middle brow]] journalism replaced serious reading and reflection.


He made his One-day International debut for Australia in [[1998]]. He opted to represent Australia over both [[English cricket team|England]] (his country of birth) and [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] (through his parents).
Castalia is home to a [[monastic]] order of [[intellectual]]s with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys (the novel is thus a detailed exploration of education and the life of the mind), and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game (see below).


In March [[2004]], he made his long-awaited Test debut in Australia's tour of [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] after showing great form in ODI cricket in [[2003]]. However, he encountered difficulty against [[Muttiah Muralitharan]] on the dusty, spinning Sri Lankan tracks, failing to pass 25 in any of his four innings, and was dropped after two Test matches. He was recalled in November [[2005]] following the injury to [[Shane Watson]], as Australia's search for an all-rounder continued. After 5 Tests, with a batting average of 12.62 and a bowling average of 85.00, his position in the team was under a cloud until the [[2005]] [[Boxing Day Test]]. On the first day of the match, he was out caught behind for a [[Duck (cricket)|golden duck]]. Then, with his batting average threatening to drop under 10 and bowling average pushing 100, Symonds took 3/50 in the [[South African cricket team|South African]] first innings before blasting 72 off 54 balls in the second innings (including a new Australian record for the fastest Test fifty - 40 balls) and taking 2/6.
The novel chronicles the life of a distinguished member of the order, Joseph Knecht (the surname translates as "servant" or "farm hand"), as narrated by a fictional historian of the order. Hence the novel is an example of a [[Bildungsroman]]. At any given time, the member of the order deemed the best Game player is honored with the title ''Magister Ludi''.


As an ODI player, he is known for scoring runs at an excellent [[Cricket statistics|strike rate]] of over 90, with a highest score of 156. He cemented his place in the team in Australia's opening match of the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]], where he scored 143* to guide Australia from 4/86 to 8/310. Symonds is sometimes branded as a One-day International 'specialist' as his ODI record with both ball and bat are far better than that of his Test match averages. Although he has had many highs, he also experienced a flourish of low scores in the summer of 2004. This included five consecutive ducks in domestic cricket, but a 328 for his local Brisbane district competition helped his push for inclusion in the Australian squad.
Polarities lie at the heart of the work, as is commonly the case in Hesse's novels. Two relationships are of particular interest, that of Knecht with his teacher, the learned monk Father Jacobus, and with his best friend at the boarding school run by the order, Plinio Designori, the scion of a rich family. At the end of their school days, Knecht, representing [[aestheticism]] and the Life of the Mind, joins the order, while Designori returns to the world. He embodies a failed reconciliation between mind and world.


In English county cricket he initially played for [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] before later appearing for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]. He hit a record 16 sixes in his unbeaten 254 against Glamorgan at the Pen-y-Pound ground in Abergavenny in 1995, beating the mark set by New Zealand's [[John Reid]]. Wisden reported that the 16th six "landed on a tennis court about 20 feet over the boundary", and added that "though he was undoubtedly helped by the short boundaries, it would have been a hugely effective innings on any ground in the world". Symonds added four more sixes in the second innings, to beat the old record of 17 in a match, set by Warwickshire's [[Jim Stewart]] against Lancashire at Blackpool in 1959. In July 2005 he signed for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] for the rest of the season having finished duties as part of Australia's ODI squad.
In his introduction to ''[[Demian]]'', [[Thomas Mann]] likened his relation with Hesse to that of Knecht and Jacobus, adding that their knowledge of each other was not possible without much ceremony. Mann extrapolates on Hesse's observance of Oriental customs in the novel. The ''Glass Bead Game'' manifests Hesse's enduring dream of combining East with West. For example, the discipline of the imaginary monastic community includes breathing and [[meditation]] techniques of clear Oriental inspiration.


At the [[2006]] [[Allan Border Medal]] count, Symonds would have won the One Day player of the year award, but ruled himself ineligible due to a late night of drinking which led to him turning up still inebriated to a match against Bangladesh, after which he was suspended.
Castalia is an [[Ivory Tower]], an ethereal protected community within a larger nation, devoted to pure intellectual pursuits, and oblivious to the problems posed by life outside its boundaries. Knecht gradually comes to doubt whether the intellectually gifted have a right to withdraw from life's big problems. He eventually concludes that they do not, and that conclusion precipitates a sort of midlife crisis. Accordingly, he does the unthinkable: he resigns as Magister Ludi and asks to leave the order, ostensibly to become of value and service, in some way, to the larger culture. A few days later, he drowns in a mountain lake, while attempting a swim for which he was not fit. Tragically, living in Castalia made Knecht unfit for life in the world. Hesse also makes an [[existentialist]] point: faced with a dilemma, Knecht opts for the world and not the ivory tower.


Andrew Symonds won Player of the Series in the 05/06 Australian ODI VB series.
Many characters in the novel have names that are allusive word games. For example, Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi was Thomas van der Trave, a veiled reference to [[Thomas Mann]] who was born in [[Lübeck]], situated on the Trave River. Father Jacobus is based on the novelist [[Jakob Wassermann]]. The character of Carlo Ferromonte is a punning reference to Hesse's nephew Karl Isenberg.


Whilst batting in the second Test in the Australian 2006 tour of South Africa, Andrew Symonds was struck in the face of his helmet by a bouncer off Makhaya Ntini. Symonds required four stitches on the inside of his upper lip.
==Central characters==
*Joseph Knecht: The central character of the book. The Magister Ludi for most of the book.
*The Music Master: Knecht's spiritual mentor who when Knecht is a child examines him for entrance into the elite schools of Castalia.
* Plinio Designori: Knecht's antithesis in the world outside.
*Father Jacobus: Knecht's antithesis in faith.
*Elder Brother: A former Castalian and student of Chinese.
*Thomas van der Trave: Joseph Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi.
*Fritz Tegularius: A friend of Knecht's but a portent of what Castalians might become if they remain insular.


Symonds has the fifth highest score in the history of the [[Twenty20 Cup]] hitting a 43-ball 112 for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent Spitfires]] against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex Crusaders]] on [[July 2|July 2nd]], [[2004]].
==Hesse's Glass Bead Game==
Although selected in Australia's 15-member World Cup squad he was unavailable for selection for the first few matches because he ruptured his [[bicep]] while batting against England on [[February 2]] [[2007]] in the [[2006-07 Commonwealth Bank Series|Commonwealth Bank Tri Series]]. Surgery was performed and Symonds underwent extensive physical rehabilitation. As a result he missed the remainder of that tournament as well as the [[Chappell-Hadlee Trophy]] in [[New Zealand]]. Symonds remarkably made a relatively quick recovery after returning for Australia's win in their last preliminary World Cup match against [[South Africa cricket team|South Africa.]] [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/284369.html][http://blogs.cricinfo.com/cricinfoselect/archives/2007/03/most_open_tournament_yet_held.php].
At the center of the monastic order lies the (fictitious) glass bead [[game]], whose exact nature remains elusive. The precise rules of the game are only alluded to, and are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Suffice it to say that playing the Game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. Essentially the game is an abstract [[synthesis]] of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics. For example, a [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] [[concerto]] may be related to a mathematical [[formula]]. One [http://www.sfhreview.com/workingpapers/?p=1 description] says:


Symonds' other trademarks are his customary dreadlocks, and the white zinc cream used on his bottom and top lips, regardless of the weather conditions (even when playing indoors). He has stated that the reason is sponsorship from the zinc cream manufacturer.
''“Theoretically,” writes the Narrator Archivist, “this instrument is capable of producing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe. The manuals, pedal, and stops are now fixed. Changes in their number and order and attempts at perfecting them, are actually no longer feasible except in theory.” And with this statement, he reveals the limitations of the game: its elitism, its hubris, its stagnation, and its sterility.In its infancy, the Game was played with delicate glass beads, which have since been discarded as too . . . real? They connected the Game with the spiritual beads played by religious believers worldwide, as the robes, and secret language, and ceremonial trappings of the game form a mock religious experience in the time of the Narrator Archivist. Without them, the game flies into the ether without a tether to reality. In our world, prayer beads and the repetition of simple phrases serve as keys to transcendence. In Castalia, they are discarded and the key is lost. The Narrator Archivist makes no reference to the ecstatic states that might be achieved by Glass Bead Game players. The games as he describes them in Knecht’s time (the twenty-second century) and his own (the twenty-fourth century) apparently fall short of what seems the obvious goal.''


== Teams ==
The Game derives its name from the fact that it was originally played with tokens, perhaps analogous to those of an [[abacus]] or the game [[go (board game)|Go]]. At the time that the novel takes place, such props had become obsolete and the game is played only with abstract, spoken formulas. The audience's appreciation of a good game draws on its appreciation of both [[music]] and mathematical [[elegance]].
===International===
*[[Australian cricket team|Australia]] (current)


===Australian state===
The Glass Bead Game also brings to mind [[Leibniz]]'s notion of a universal [[calculus]] and his dream of a [[Mathesis universalis]]. [[Douglas Hofstadter]]'s ''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'', even though it does not mention Hesse's novel, is an intellectual exercise very much in the spirit of the Game.
*[[Queensland Bulls]] (current)


===English county===
However rather as being seen as a purely intellectual or rational notion it is more likely the glass bead game includes more [[Existential]] elements. As Hesse's other works (such as Steppenwolf for example) draw strongly on [[Existential]] themes it is likely that the glass bead game refers to the way in which people construct their realities. That is to say that the glass bead game is in fact life or existence and it illustrates the ways that people position not just themselves material but how they construct their entire perception of reality. As one needs to understand reality before one can deliberately allocate it this is the reference to the years of study.
*[[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]]
*[[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]]
*[[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]
*[[Surrey County Cricket Club]]


== Career highlights ==
==Allusions/references from other works==
=== Tests ===
* The [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] band [[Igra Staklenih Perli]], and their [[eponym|eponymous]] record, was named after the book.[http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=1614]
Test Debut: vs Sri Lanka, [[Galle]], 2003-[[2004]]<br>
*Symond's best Test bowling figures of 3 for 50 came against South Africa, Melbourne, 2005-2006
*His best Test score of 156 was against England, Melbourne, 2006-2007


== See also ==
=== One-day Internationals ===
ODI Debut: vs [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]], [[Lahore]], 1998-[[1999]]<br>
*[[Hermann Hesse]]
*Symonds' best ODI score of 156 was against New Zealand, at Westpac Stadium, [[Wellington]], [[December 7]] [[2005]]
* [[Existentialism]]
*His best ODI bowling figures of 5 for 18 came against Bangladesh, [[Manchester]], [[2005]]
* [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
* [[Epistemology]]
* [[Noosphere]]
* [[Ontology]]
* [[Polysemy]]
* [[Rithmomachy]]
* [[Syncretism]]
* [[Efforts to Create A Glass Bead Game]]


== References ==
=== World Records ===
Symonds holds the world records for the most sixes hit during a first-class innings (16) and during a first-class match (20), both set while playing for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan as a 20 year old. His first innings score was 254 not out.
* Hermann Hesse. ''The Glass Bead Game''. Vintage Classics. ISBN 0-09-928362-X


==External links==
{{Hermann Hesse}}
*[http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/PLAYERS/AUS/S/SYMONDS_A_02004382/ Cricinfo profile on Andrew Symonds]


==References==
== External links ==


<references/>
* [http://www.ludism.org/gbgwiki/ Glass Bead Game Wiki.] Links to efforts at developing a Glass Bead Game.
* [http://www.erpmusic.com/Glasperlenspiel.htm Glasperlenspiel Festival.]
* [http://glassplategame.org/ Details] of Dunbar Aitkens' "conversation in the trappings of a board game."
* [http://www.beadgaming.com/pageindex.html On the hipbone metaphor.]
* [http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/GBG/index.html The most complex of the attempts to create a real-life Glass Bead Game.]
* http://www.joshuafost.com/glassbeadgame/ A Semantic Web instantiation with examples from symbolism in Pulp Fiction.
* http://kennexions.ludism.org/ A link to Ron Hale-Evans' Kennexions game.
* http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etas3/wtc/ii21.html Timothy A. Smith's Shockwave movie analyzing a Bach fugue with visual symbols.
* http://log24.com/theory/kal/ Kaleidoscope Puzzle with symbols like those in Smith's movie.
* http://www.spookybug.com/bgirls/pif.html The Gospel of Pif: A playable variation on the glass bead game
* http://www.island.org/ive/1/leary1.html Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society


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Andrew Symonds
Source: [1], April 10 2007

Andrew Symonds (born 9 June, 1975, Birmingham, England) is an Australian cricketer of West Indian heritage who moved to Australia with his parents, after they adopted him, when he was one year old.

Symonds is a talented, powerful, right-handed batsman. He can also bowl off spin or medium pace, making him a good all-rounder. He is an exceptional fielder, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fourth highest success rate.[1] He is very agile for his size and weight (medium-heavy build; 187cm tall), has excellent reflexes, is able to take catches well and has a powerful and accurate throwing arm. His nickname is Roy, shortened from the name Leroy, after a coach from early in his career believed he resembled local Brisbane NBL hero Leroy Loggins.[2]

Since making his debut for the Queensland state team in the 1994-1995 season, Symonds has scored over 10,000 runs in first-class cricket.

He made his One-day International debut for Australia in 1998. He opted to represent Australia over both England (his country of birth) and West Indies (through his parents).

In March 2004, he made his long-awaited Test debut in Australia's tour of Sri Lanka after showing great form in ODI cricket in 2003. However, he encountered difficulty against Muttiah Muralitharan on the dusty, spinning Sri Lankan tracks, failing to pass 25 in any of his four innings, and was dropped after two Test matches. He was recalled in November 2005 following the injury to Shane Watson, as Australia's search for an all-rounder continued. After 5 Tests, with a batting average of 12.62 and a bowling average of 85.00, his position in the team was under a cloud until the 2005 Boxing Day Test. On the first day of the match, he was out caught behind for a golden duck. Then, with his batting average threatening to drop under 10 and bowling average pushing 100, Symonds took 3/50 in the South African first innings before blasting 72 off 54 balls in the second innings (including a new Australian record for the fastest Test fifty - 40 balls) and taking 2/6.

As an ODI player, he is known for scoring runs at an excellent strike rate of over 90, with a highest score of 156. He cemented his place in the team in Australia's opening match of the 2003 Cricket World Cup, where he scored 143* to guide Australia from 4/86 to 8/310. Symonds is sometimes branded as a One-day International 'specialist' as his ODI record with both ball and bat are far better than that of his Test match averages. Although he has had many highs, he also experienced a flourish of low scores in the summer of 2004. This included five consecutive ducks in domestic cricket, but a 328 for his local Brisbane district competition helped his push for inclusion in the Australian squad.

In English county cricket he initially played for Gloucestershire before later appearing for Kent. He hit a record 16 sixes in his unbeaten 254 against Glamorgan at the Pen-y-Pound ground in Abergavenny in 1995, beating the mark set by New Zealand's John Reid. Wisden reported that the 16th six "landed on a tennis court about 20 feet over the boundary", and added that "though he was undoubtedly helped by the short boundaries, it would have been a hugely effective innings on any ground in the world". Symonds added four more sixes in the second innings, to beat the old record of 17 in a match, set by Warwickshire's Jim Stewart against Lancashire at Blackpool in 1959. In July 2005 he signed for Lancashire for the rest of the season having finished duties as part of Australia's ODI squad.

At the 2006 Allan Border Medal count, Symonds would have won the One Day player of the year award, but ruled himself ineligible due to a late night of drinking which led to him turning up still inebriated to a match against Bangladesh, after which he was suspended.

Andrew Symonds won Player of the Series in the 05/06 Australian ODI VB series.

Whilst batting in the second Test in the Australian 2006 tour of South Africa, Andrew Symonds was struck in the face of his helmet by a bouncer off Makhaya Ntini. Symonds required four stitches on the inside of his upper lip.

Symonds has the fifth highest score in the history of the Twenty20 Cup hitting a 43-ball 112 for Kent Spitfires against Middlesex Crusaders on July 2nd, 2004. Although selected in Australia's 15-member World Cup squad he was unavailable for selection for the first few matches because he ruptured his bicep while batting against England on February 2 2007 in the Commonwealth Bank Tri Series. Surgery was performed and Symonds underwent extensive physical rehabilitation. As a result he missed the remainder of that tournament as well as the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy in New Zealand. Symonds remarkably made a relatively quick recovery after returning for Australia's win in their last preliminary World Cup match against South Africa. [2][3].

Symonds' other trademarks are his customary dreadlocks, and the white zinc cream used on his bottom and top lips, regardless of the weather conditions (even when playing indoors). He has stated that the reason is sponsorship from the zinc cream manufacturer.

Teams

International

Australian state

English county

Career highlights

Tests

Test Debut: vs Sri Lanka, Galle, 2003-2004

  • Symond's best Test bowling figures of 3 for 50 came against South Africa, Melbourne, 2005-2006
  • His best Test score of 156 was against England, Melbourne, 2006-2007

One-day Internationals

ODI Debut: vs Pakistan, Lahore, 1998-1999

World Records

Symonds holds the world records for the most sixes hit during a first-class innings (16) and during a first-class match (20), both set while playing for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan as a 20 year old. His first innings score was 254 not out.

References

  1. ^ Basevi, Trevor (2005-11-08). "Statistics - Run outs in ODIs". Retrieved 2007-02-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "publisher Cricinfo" ignored (help)
  2. ^ Fox Sports Ashes Player Profiles, retrieved 27 December 2006

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