Book description
Never before has the whole world of cricket been collected in one,
really quite large volume.
Les Scott has collected a lifetime of anecdotes, records, quotes and
cuttings to make The Essential Cricket Book. With a century of
sections detailing everything from balls and slips to pavilions,
umpires and teas; all the Test-playing nations, first-class counties
as well as minor counties and clubs, plus universities; tournaments
from the Ashes through the old John Player League to the Sheffield
Shield (not to mention the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash); bizarre dismissals
and of course LBWs, all the great games and characters of cricket are
brought to life.
It's all here: the first player to wear a helmet, the first man to
attempt a reverse sweep, the games when camels (or mackerels) stopped
play, the batsmen given out 'absent, thought lost on the Tube' and
'retired, suffering from measles', or simply the last England bowler
to take a wicket with the first ball of a Test Match.
Les Scott is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who has
collaborated on successful autobiographies with Stanley Matthews, Jimmy
Greaves, Tommy Docherty and Fred Trueman, among others, as well as
working for national and regional newspapers and in television, film,
theatre and radio. He has also recently co-written the
Sunday Times
bestselling autobiographies by Liverpool footballing legends Tommy
Smith and Ian Rush.
