Synopsis
A cricket book unlike any other, packed with anecdotes on the history of the game.Never before has the whole world of cricket been collected in one, really quite large volume.Les Scott has collected a lifetime of anecdotes, records, quotes and cuttings to make The Essential Cricket Book . With a century of sections detailing everything from balls and slips to pavilions, umpires and teas; all the Test-playing nations, first-class counties as well as minor counties and clubs, plus universities; tournaments from the Ashes through the old John Player League to the Sheffield Shield (not to mention the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash); bizarre dismissals and of course LBWs, all the great games and characters of cricket are brought to life.It's all the first player to wear a helmet, the first man to attempt a reverse sweep, the games when camels (or mackerels) stopped play, the batsmen given out 'absent, thought lost on the Tube' and 'retired, suffering from measles', or simply the last England bowler to take a wicket with the first ball of a Test Match.
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Les Scott is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who has collaborated on successful autobiographies with Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Greaves, Tommy Docherty and Fred Trueman, among others, as well as working for national and regional newspapers and in television, film, theatre and radio. He has also recently co-written the Sunday Times bestselling autobiographies by Liverpool footballing legends Tommy Smith and Ian Rush.
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