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Arm-ball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #214987 in Books
- Published on: 2007-06-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Editorial Reviews
SUNDAY TIMES -- BOOK OF THE WEEK
Cricket's ability to fit the new alongside the old grins happily
out of Lawrence Booth's entertaining writing.
SPORT magazine
A witty and readable guide to the words that matter...
indispensable for newcomers and veterans alike.
WISDEN CRICKETER magazine
Chatty, amusing (plus Nick Newman's delightful cartoon A to Z)...
A cricketer's dip-in book for the Christmas stocking.
