What I Love About Cricket: One Man's Vain Attempt to Explain Cricket to a Teenager who Couldn't Give a Toss - Softcover

Balfour, Sandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091927323 ISBN 13: 9780091927325

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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)

Book Description:

An hilarious memoir about cricket's role in life, the universe and everything

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0091927323
• ISBN 13: 9780091927325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288