Fatty Batter
How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)
Nonfiction, Sports, Cricket, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Michael Simkins | ISBN: | 9781446446171 |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing | Publication: | March 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Ebury Digital | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Simkins |
| ISBN: | 9781446446171 |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Publication: | March 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Ebury Digital |
| Language: | English |
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 is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.
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 is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.
