Fatty Batter How Cricket Saved My Life (then Ruined It) |
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| Author:
| Simkins, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-09-190151-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates,
Fatty Batter...
More DescriptionA fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.