{"product_id":"fatty-batter-how-cricket-saved-my-life-then-ruined-it","title":"Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simkins, Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Ebury Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 06-05-2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 1670905\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nA fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates,\u003cbr\u003e\nFatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nOnce you've read this account of one man's love affair with cricket, you'll never want to read another ghosted autobiography by a Pietersen or a Vaughan again - incompetence and failure is far more fun -- Michael Atherton\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn instant classic -- Stephen Fry\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe childhood recollections, suffused with warmth and spangled with pain and humour, are the book's unique selling point. Lovely stuff ―\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSimmo may be a shockingly average amateur cricketer, but when it comes to self- deprecating wit and telling a good anecdote, he's as sprightly as Garry Sobers in his prime ... anecdotes and quirky characters hurtle down at us like yorkers bowled by a fast bowler that I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to name ... an entertaining read indeed ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMichael writes about disaster, humiliation, rejection and ridicule - the hilarious truth -- Nicholas Hytner\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nMichael Simkins was born in 1957 and spent his childhood in a sweetshop in Brighton. In 1966 he saw his first cricket match on the TV, and from that moment he was hooked.When he hasn't been playing, watching or dreaming about cricket, Michael has spent his time acting. He has appeared in countless plays and musicals in the west end, most recently as Billy Flynn in Chicago, and also features regularly on TV and the silver screen, usually playing unsuspecting husbands, police sergeants or experts. He lives with his wife, the actress Julia Deakin, in north-west London, and still plays cricket to a worryingly low standard all over the Southern Counties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780091901516\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebury Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100731904304,"sku":"Trans_9780091901516","price":1444.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71G_Dlec-eL.jpg?v=1756714686","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/fatty-batter-how-cricket-saved-my-life-then-ruined-it","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}