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Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a sports book with a difference. It is an original and engaging journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Written by Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with cricket into a means of paying the mortgage, it seeks to answer 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 when will India take over the world?
Fittingly, for a sport that can last up to five days without a result, Cricket, Lovely Cricket is rambling but probing, humorous but insightful, sweeping but reflective. It is underpinned by the essential - and slightly frightening - truth that cricket does not actually matter at all, yet continually finds itself relating the game to the wider world. By examining what cricket tells us about the nations who spend vast chunks of their existence fretting over the fate of a small red ball, it attempts to get to the heart of a sport that seems more capable than any other of bewitching its followers.
Full of stories, observations, jokes and whimsy, this book is a captivating look at the way in which the game has become what it is today - and what, given a fair wind, it might be like in the future.
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A brilliant tour round the world of cricket from the Guardian's Lawrence Booth, one of the game's best and funniest writers
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Lawrence Booth writes about cricket for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and Wisden. He has written two previous books, Armball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket, and Cricket: Celebrating the Modern Game Around the World. He lives in London.
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- EditoreYellow Jersey
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 022407914X
- ISBN 13 9780224079143
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine256
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