Book description
Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially
curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned
and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence
Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the
game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the
questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a
satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What is the
secret of sledging? Why get so worked up about the Ashes? Why all the
clichés? And how did India take over the world?
Taking the reader to the heart of a game that seems more capable
than any other of bewitching its followers, this is a captivating look
at the way cricket has become what it is today - and what, given a
fair wind, it might be like in the future.
Lawrence Booth writes about cricket for the
Guardian
and the
Sunday Times
. In addition to his print work, he writes 'The Spin', the
Guardian
website's irreverent cricket email, and has frequently contributed to
their acclaimed over-by-over coverage. He is the author of two previous
books and in 2011 he was appointed to the prestigious role of editor of
the
Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack in 2011. He lives in south-west London.
