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Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (And Then Ruined It)
Fatty Batter How Cricket Saved My Life - And Then Ruined It Author:Michael Simkins This hilarious story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket takes readers from the early awkward days as a fat boy growing up in a Brighton sweet shop to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates still chasing the sweet spot. In this story, cricket offers a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly d... more »ream. That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation and disappointment?the perfect net practice for life.« less