Cricket's Great Entertainers

Cricket's Great Entertainers

by HenryBlofeld (Author)

Synopsis

As a widely respected cricket historian, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game, and also a writer with a great sense of fun, Henry Blofeld is the ideal man to select the great characters of cricket who have livened up the sport.

We learn of the exploits of the legendary Ian Botham, a man who made up his own rules and has been at the centre of controversy on countless occasions; Garry Sobers, an immensely popular all-round great; and Dennis Lillee, the temperamental fast bowler who once held up a game with a tantrum when ordered to change his aluminium bat.

Henry Blofeld regales us with marvellous - sometimes mischievous - stories to add to the Boy's Own nature of the book, and highlights those players who would make cricket lovers cancel their appointments to see them, even on a cold April day.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 13 Sep 2004

ISBN 10: 0340827297
ISBN 13: 9780340827291
Book Overview: Henry Blofeld singles out the most exciting and entertaining cricketers of all time in his irrepressibly enthusiastic book.

Media Reviews
It confirms his encyclopaedic knowledge of the game from Alfred Mynn to Michael Vaughan * Daily Mail *
Author Bio
Henry Blofeld has been a cricket writer for thirty-five years. He is the leading commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special and writes for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. Henry Blofeld was awarded the OBE in January 2003 for services to sports broadcasting.