by Michael Parkinson (Author)
For most of his professional life Michael Parkinson has been a highly regarded sports journalist. This consistently entertaining collection of his best articles reminds us that his first love is cricket and the people who excel at it. His ambition to play for England was thwarted, but not before he opened the batting with a young Dickie Bird at Barnsley. Along with hilarious memories of his cricket mad-father and a lost youth emulating his heroes in street games, Michael Parkinson has written descriptions of great players he has known and the moments or matches during which they were famous. Unsurprisingly there is an edge to what the author has to say about cricket administrators and the way the game is run.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Published: 03 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0340825073
ISBN 13: 9780340825075
Book Overview: Michael Parkinson wrote a sports column for The Sunday Times for 15 years and now writes for the Telegraph . As well as a career as a radio and television presenter, he is a past winner of the Sports Feature Writer of the Year award.