sub menu can go here
------line above is for sub menu do not delete as will affect layout of page. Add all content below this line-----
The Worst of Cricket
Run Outs to Riots: Malice and Misfortune in the World's Cruellest Game
by Nigel Henderson
Publication Date: 7 June 2004
RRP: £9.99
Format: Hardback
Size: 146 x 216 x 20 mm
Pages: 272
ISBN-10: 0954246047
ISBN-13: 978-0954246044
We've been swallowing the myth for years; that cricket is a gentlemanly pursuit, where bad luck is something to be borne stoically, and bad behaviour is poor form that will get you drummed out of the club. This is plainly nonsense. This book is a warts-and-all celebration of that truth: that cricket is sometimes so bad to its participants that they have no option other than to hit back just as hard. So pad up and take your guard for a full panoply of cricket horror stories: from the worst umpiring decisions, the worst tantrums and the worst injuries to the worst riots, worst gamesmanship and worst dismissals; from the worst confrontations and the worst upsets to the worst mistakes and worst off-field misdemeanours... all from the first-class game. Each of The Worst of Cricket's 12 chapters covers a different worst - including the worst umpiring decisions, the worst tantrums and the worst injuries - and gives the 11 worst examples from first-class cricket. At the end of each chapter there's also a slightly irreverent worst 12th man. There's the umpire who upheld a timed-out appeal against a rheumatically-challenged batsman for creeping agonisingly to the wicket; the fielder who impaled himself on the pavilion gates; the man who rolled the pitch and triggered a riot; while Ian Botham provides the sex, the drugs and the rock-n-roll-style dressing-room trashings!
About The Author
Nigel Henderson has a love-hate relationship with cricket; he loves it, it hates him. After a number of middling performances for Surrey Young Cricketers in the early 1980s he was cruelly brushed aside in favour of more talented players and condemned to life in the club game, where countless dubious lbw decisions and the occasional trashed dressing-room later, he found something more constructive to do with his Saturday afternoons. Taking refuge in journalism, he initially worked for several local papers and the Press Association. He has been a freelance writer for Inside Edge, Third Man and The Cricketer and has covered the Wimbledon tennis championships for the BBC. He spent two years as deputy sports editor of the Royal Gazette, Bermuda's daily paper, and currently has a day/night job on the sports desk at The Times. Nigel is also the author of Pitch titles If It Was Raining Palaces I'd Get Hit by the Dunny Door and The Worst of Football.
|
