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The Wit of Cricket: Stories from Cricket''s best-loved personalities

Paperback | English

By (author): Barry Johnston

A bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes and stories from cricket''s best-loved personalities. Cricket is a funny old game - even when rain stops play!

Now you can read not only the most popular stories by five of the game''s all-time great characters - Richie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston and Fred Trueman - but also the humour and insights of modern players including Michael Atherton, Andrew Flintoff, Darren Gough, Kevin Pietersen and Shane Warne.

Crammed full of dozens of hilarious anecdotes about legendary Test cricketers such as Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Denis Compton, Michael Holding and Merv Hughes - plus broadcasting gaffes, sledging, short-sighted umpires and the first male streaker at Lord''s!

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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 220g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 27 May 2010
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780340978894

About Barry Johnston

Barry Johnston appeared with the vocal group Design on over fifty TV shows in the 1970s. He presented the breakfast show on KLOA-AM in California and has broadcast regularly on BBC radio. He now runs Barn Productions and produced the award- winning audiobooks An Evening with Johnners and The Wit of Cricket. He is a book editor for major publishers as well as his own books such as the Sunday Times bestseller Letters Home 1926-1945 and is the author of biographies of Kenneth Horne and of his father Brian Johnston.

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