by Michae Simkins (Author)
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, it tells the hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Ebury Press
Published: 05 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0091901502
ISBN 13: 9780091901509
Book Overview: A tale of one podgy boy's dreams on the outside edge of a cricketing life, from the celebrated author of What's My Motivation?
Prizes: Shortlisted for British Sports Book Awards: Best Cricket Book 2008 and Costa Biography Award 2007.