What I Love About Cricket
  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780091927325
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

What I Love About Cricket

One Man's Vain Attempt to Explain Cricket to a Teenager who Couldn't Give a Toss

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30 Nov 2011
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15 Jun 2010
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An hilarious memoir about cricket's role in life, the universe and everything

What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his sixteen-year-old daughter's new boyfriend - the skateboarding boy wonder - is the reluctant pupil.

This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter addressed both to
those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in
the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed, very funny and as much about fathers
and daughters, love and life, as it is about cricket.
  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780091927325
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Sandy Balfour

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8). He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.

Praise for What I Love About Cricket

Hilarious ... one of those entertaining paeans to cricket and its role in life, the universe and everything

Guardian

Delightful stuff

Michael Simkins, author of Fatty Batter

A charming and witty book

Times Literary Supplement

Highly entertaining

Sir Tim Rice

Beguiling charm

Wisden

A warm, funny, realistic and affectionate book

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