The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket s demise and its large part in mine

Michael Simkins

ISBN 10: 0091927552 / ISBN 13: 9780091927554

Published by Ebury Publishing, 2012

About this Item

2012. Paperback. Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers. This title presents his portrait. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: WSJC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket s demise and its large part in mine
• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091927552
• ISBN 13: 9780091927554
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A hilarious odyssey in search of some answers about life and cricket from the author of the bestselling Fatty Batter.
 
Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer -- passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers.
 
He decides instead to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England in search of that golden time in his youth when his passion for the game was first kindled. It's a journey that begins in May in light drizzle at the birthplace of cricket, takes in the burial site of his favourite ground (now a Marks & Spencer) and even stops along the way to flirt with the love child of WG Grace and Kerry Katona that is Twenty20. It ends with the ultimate cricketing zenith - returning to the field of play to bowl an over to Freddie Flintoff in fading light in front of a capacity crowd. So can cricket still bring comfort and meaning to his life or is Old Father Time about to call for Michael's bails?

About the Author

MICHAEL SIMKINS trained at RADA. He has appeared in more than 70 plays, stage highlights include A View from the Bridge at the National Theatre as well as musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia. He also directed Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Greenwich Theatre. He has made countless TV appearances including Foyle's War and My Family -- as well as turns on the silver screen in such films as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has worked with luminaries as diverse as Anthony Perkins, John Malkovich, Michael Gambon and Buster Merryfield.