Cricket, Lovely Cricket?
  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224079150
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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Cricket, Lovely Cricket?

An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game

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The funniest cricket book you'll read this year, by one of the game's brightest writers.

Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What is the secret of sledging? Why get so worked up about the Ashes? Why all the clichés? And how did India take over the world?

Taking the reader to the heart of a game that seems more capable than any other of bewitching its followers, this is a captivating look at the way cricket has become what it is today - and what, given a fair wind, it might be like in the future.
  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224079150
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Lawrence Booth

Lawrence Booth writes about cricket for the Guardian and the Sunday Times. In addition to his print work, he writes 'The Spin', the Guardian website's irreverent cricket email, and has frequently contributed to their acclaimed over-by-over coverage. He is the author of two previous books and in 2011 he was appointed to the prestigious role of editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2011. He lives in south-west London.

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Praise for Cricket, Lovely Cricket?

It is a great virtue in a cricket writer, the ability to flourish a polished anecdote or a droll quotation like a man embellishing an engaging conversation... Anything [Booth] writes is going to be worth reading

Wisden

One of England's funniest and most engaging cricket writers

Independent

Engaging... a delight

Peter Wilby, Observer

Wry, affectionate, irreverent and full of delicious anecdotes

Metro

Lawrence Booth has put together a sports book like no other

Daily Express

Acerbic, funny stuff

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