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An hilarious memoir about cricket's role in life, the universe and everything
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What I Love (About Cricket) is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his sixteen-year-old daughter's new boyfriend - the skateboarding Boy Wonder - is the reluctant pupil.
Sandy and the teenager Boy Wonder are from different universes, but when a broken ankle scupper's the boy's holiday plans he reticently agrees to accompany Sandy to Lord's. After a rain-interrupted start to their relationship things begin to click and slowly but surely cricket creeps into their shared summer. This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter address equally to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed and very funny and as much about fathers and daughters, love and life as it is about cricket.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I feel moved to write my first review on Amazon after reading this book at an appropriate moment in my life and in English cricket's life. I began reading it on the train on my way to watch the twenty20 finals day at Edgbaston and continued reading it over the next week in bits and pieces until finishing it just after England regained the Ashes last Sunday. As a previous reviewer said the setup IS contrived - a fact which the author acknowledges at the end - and I loved the personal story that ran through it as I am primarily a lover of fiction. I loved the several pages devoted to Collingwood's catch and was seduced enough by the description to look it up on Youtube! If he had been writing this now maybe he would have given some pages over to Flintoff's running out of Ponting last Saturday too. As a cricket fan who doesn't know a massive amount about the rules I enjoyed the geekiness of Balfour's obsession and am so glad I read it when I did, instead of during the rain soaked July in which I first borrowed it from the library! Thank you Sandy Balfour for the perfect accompaniment to my sunny late summer of cricket 2009 x
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Not quite in the same league as Marcus Berkmann, Fatty Batter, Rain Men et al but nonetheless a very enjoyable and quite funny cricket-centric story.
Good reminiscences of childhood cricket right through to the frustrations of the getting-older, club cricketer. We aging cricketers all like to think we'll pass some wisdom or passion for the game onto a younger generation who have way too many other distractions, sporting and otherwise, this is one way to do it.
I enjoyed it as a good pre-season "loosener"
Good reminiscences of childhood cricket right through to the frustrations of the getting-older, club cricketer. We aging cricketers all like to think we'll pass some wisdom or passion for the game onto a younger generation who have way too many other distractions, sporting and otherwise, this is one way to do it.
I enjoyed it as a good pre-season "loosener"
Format:Paperback
I was given this by a friend who'd already read it and wasn't particularly impressed by it, on the condition that after finishing it, I pass it on. So I'll do that. Tomorrow I'll leave it on a train, and some random stranger can pick it up. And I'll do it regretfully, because I actually quite enjoyed it. Sure, it doesn't say much about anything - least of all what the author loves about cricket - and I can't remember a damned thing of any significance about it, but even so, it was an enjoyable read. I recommend that you buy it. Unless you find it on the train tomorrow. I'll be buying it too.
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