What I love about cricket : one man's vain attempt to explain cricket to a teenager who couldn't give a toss / Sandy Balfour.

By:

Balfour, Sandy, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Ebury, 2010.Description: p. cmISBN:

9780091927325 (pbk.)
0091927323 (pbk.)

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his sixteen-year-old daughter's new boyfriend - the skateboarding boy wonder - is the reluctant pupil.

This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter addressed both to
those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in
the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed, very funny and as much about fathers
and daughters, love and life, as it is about cricket.

Originally published: 2009.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8) . He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.