Cricket, Lovely Cricket?

An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game

By: Lawrence Booth

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Paperback | 15 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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19.7 x 13.2 x 1.6

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Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a sports book with a difference - 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. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider 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 cliches? And how did India take over the world?Fittingly, for a sport that can last up to five days without a result, Cricket, Lovely Cricket is all-embracing 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.

Industry Reviews

It is a great virtue in a cricket writer, the ability to flourish a polished anecdote or a droll quotation like a man embellishing an engaging conversation... Anything [Booth] writes is going to be worth reading * Wisden *
Engaging... a delight -- Peter Wilby * Observer *
One of England's funniest and most engaging cricket writers * Independent *
Lawrence Booth has put together a sports book like no other * Daily Express *
Wry, affectionate, irreverent and full of delicious anecdotes * Metro *

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