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Synopsis
What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers have been up to all these years.
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About the Author
Lawrence Booth is the man behind the Guardian's enormously popular column The Spin, which pulls in a weekly readership of around 10,000 subscribers. A lifelong cricket fan, he is the author of Cricket: Celebrating the Modern Game Around the World (2005) and a contributing editor to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
From the Inside Flap
Few sports, with the possible exception of tae kwon do, have a
vocabulary as rich and apparently grounded in freemasonry as cricket. If
batsmen are not being bamboozled by doosras, they are pulling through
midwicket or reverse-sweeping to third man. Bowlers seem to be forever
peppering their maidens with googlies, or fiddling mischievously with the
seam. Grown men just can't stop shouting funny things at other, slightly
older, grown men. Everyone, everywhere, it seems, is doing something that
is incapable of being expressed in plain English. So what, exactly, IS
cricket?
Lawrence Booth, author of the Guardian's acclaimed `The Spin', makes the
perfect guide to this often inhospitable terrain. Exploding pomposity,
misty-eyed clichés and old gits' cynicism aplenty along the way, he
explains the history and institutions of the game through its language, and
nothing - from WG Grace and the smack of leather on willow to the (brief)
advent of aluminium bats and Kerry Packer - will ever seem quite the same
again.
What has Albania got to do with anything? Who was George Davis? And what on
earth is a freaker? From bats and balls to the names of the big, the
smaller and the frankly obscure, via the quirks, oddities and irrelevancies
that make up the game - ARM-BALL TO ZOOTER is the definitive look - the
perfect all-rounder - at the weird and wonderful world of a language we
could all do with speaking just a little more fluently.
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