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A chuckleworthy read
Review date: 2010-04-06 Rating: 8 out of 10
I bought this book for my husband (a keen cricket fan who still plays in two local 'ageing' teams) with some trepidation after reading one or two adverse reviews. I need not have worried. Although he did not find it as amusing as Zimmermen he would rate it on a par with Penguins Stop Play and the content as definitely 'chuckleworthy'.
Brilliant
Review date: 2010-03-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
Consider the following questions:
1. In all the years since you first picked up a cricket bat, do you still remember with a thrill the occasion when you actually got to the pitch of a friendly half-volley, and just for once the ball didn't dribble a few humiliating yards toward mid-wicket or loop gently into the hands of backward point, but rocketed through extra-cover for four?
2. In all the years since you first picked up a cricket ball, do you still remember with a thrill the occasion when you pitched one just outside off and it turned in just enough to go through the gate of the hopeless incompetent at the far end to bowl him middle-and-off?
3. Does the single, unadorned phrase "eight for forty-three" unfailingly send you into a long and blissful reverie involving two rather mad, staring eyes under a shock of curly hair and Ray Bright's middle stump lying flat on the Headingley turf?
If the answer to all of these is "yes," then you are me and probably ought to seek psychiatric help. However, if the questions have any meaning to you, whatever the answers, then you will enjoy this book hugely, as I did. It is the story of one semi-competent cricketer's love for the game from the first stirrings of interest through to an adult obsession which many, many people will recognise. It is beautifully written, hilariously funny - I literally cried with laughter several times - and very, very touching in places.
Highly, highly recommended to anyone who has ever played cricket at any level whatsoever. A fantastically enjoyable book.
(If you like this, by the way, you will also enjoy Marcus Berkmann's Rain Men: Rain Men: Madness of Cricket which is similar in tone and just as funny.)
NOSTALGIC CRICKET READ
Review date: 2010-03-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
Having been a child in the 60's,keen on cricket,but not brilliant, and having played 'owzat' hundreds of times this was the book for me. It conjured up cricketers of the 60's that you had forgotten about, particularly Colin Milburn. It seems to be definitely the 21st century's answer to 'The Art of Coarse Cricket',everything that Michael Simpkins writes must have happened,it's not just a writer/actor trying to be funny.
This was a hugely enjoyable book that summed up the flavour of nomadic cricket teams with all the problems of getting a team, dealing with the idiosyncratic behaviour of players and having an afternoon of enjoyment that will get you through to the next weekend of cricket. I particularly enjoyed Michael's early days in Brighton when he was trying to break into the 'big time'
This was a very good book that is well worth reading if you are or were a cricketer, a crickter's widow, or a European who wonders what the fuss is all about with this game of cricket in United Kingdom, because you certainly cannot forget the Scots or Irish
Class
Review date: 2010-02-16 Rating: 10 out of 10
This book made me laugh and cry in equal measure. Quite simply it is a must read for anybody who has played or watched cricket at any level because there will be something in this book that they can personally relate to.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Michael Simkins
Recording label: Ebury Press
Manufacturer: Ebury Press
EAN: 9780091901516
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 796
ISBN: 0091901510
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 320
Publication date: 2008-04-03
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Published)
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