Cricket Box
Book Details
Author(s)Tim Brooke-Taylor
PublisherArrow Books Ltd
ISBN / ASIN0099547007
ISBN-139780099547006
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
IT'S THE BEDSIDE BOOK YOU CAN REALLY CREASE UP WITH! Littered with helpful uncensored photographs and diagrams, in the po-faced prose familiar to all Goodies fans, Tim Brooke-Taylor's Cricket Box takes the hallowed summer game out of the Long Room... and into the lunatic asylum!THE LAWS OF CRICKET ... as originally devised by drunks in Pall Mali.UNFORGETTABLE GROUNDS ... including Bumcliff Edge, Cromer and many more.INVALUABLE ADVICE... including how to combat leg tremors with the discreet use of bamboo canes and how to inspect a pitch without actually counting the blades of grass.LITTLE KNOWN FACTS OF THE GAME ...Did you know that Tim Brooke-Taylor was once selected for England? Well, neither did he!From a SHORT HISTORY OF THE TOSS to an hours of fun for all the-family game.You'll be amazed at what you'll find inside...
