Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

By Michael Simkins

Book Overview

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091901510
• ISBN13: 9780091901516
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.6"