Ashes 2009: When Freddie Became Jesus

Ashes 2009: When Freddie Became Jesus

by JarrodKimber (Author)

Synopsis

Jarrod Kimber, the Aussie author of the cult cricketwithballs blog, goes where other cricket chroniclers fear to tread in his 2009 series Ashes diary. From his couch, in the stands and with the occasional press pass from the Wisden Cricketer, Kimber produces a unique take on events on and off the field. When he's not rubbing shoulders with cricket's glitterati, he's either rubbing Steve Waugh up the wrong way, fraternising with the npower girls or attempting to lick Richie Benaud's trousers. Unless he's threatening to strip Ian Bell naked, oil him up and make him practice in a giant birdcage, that is. But amid the bawdy humour and ribald ranting is the penetrating insight and love of the game that by the end of the summer had journalists of a more conventional nature tapping cricketwithballs into their search engines, leading the Guardian to describe Kimber as a 22nd-century cricket writer .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
Published: 15 Dec 2009

ISBN 10: 1905411774
ISBN 13: 9781905411771

Author Bio
Jarrod Kimber is also the author of The Year of the Balls 2008 and Australian Autopsy, his diary of the 2010/11 Ashes series. He rose to notoriety on his cricketwithballs blog, which was fresh, funny, angry, wholly original and much imitated. Jarrod has since edited SPIN magazine and now writes The Cricket Sadist Hour blog for ESPN Cricinfo.