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Product details
- ISBN 9781838405113
- Dimensions: 135 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Safe Haven Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Everyone's image of the ideal cricket ground will be a village field, fringed by trees, the outfield dappled with clovers and buttercups, swallows flitting above... And what of all the other wildlife associated with this most natural of sports?
At the Oval these days, Test Match Special's commentators remark on the resident foxes as often as the traditional pigeons. At Teddington Town CC in London's Bushy Park matches are frequently interrupted by incursions of deer; at Lyndhurst in the New Forest by wild ponies. At Kirkby Lonsdale CC in Cumbria the local fungus group found 20 species of waxcap on the outfield. For some reason hoopoes, spectacular orange and black-crested birds from southern Europe, favour cricket grounds on their rare migrations to the UK.
This unique, funny, delightful cricket book from left field explores the relationship between cricket grounds and the natural world, from wildlife records to the Edwardian cricket writings of Edmund Blunden, and in many remarkable photos.
Graham Coster is the publisher of Safe Haven Books, on which list quirky cricket books are a speciality. He is the author of Snow Stopped Play: The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter and The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth (both Safe Haven).
