Arm-ball to Zooter by Lawrence Booth

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Arm-ball to Zooter by Lawrence Booth

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What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket's vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliche, poetry and prose. This work talks about the peculiarities of the game, its history and figures.

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Arm-ball to Zooter by Lawrence Booth

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers have been up to all these years.
Lawrence Booth is the man behind the Guardian's enormously popular column The Spin, which pulls in a weekly readership of around 10,000 subscribers. A lifelong cricket fan, he is the author of Cricket: Celebrating the Modern Game Around the World (2005) and a contributing editor to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
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ISBN 13 9780141027623
ISBN 10 0141027622
Title Arm-ball to Zooter
Author Lawrence Booth
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2007-06-07
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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