Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

A 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. A 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, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man''s life lived through cricket.

• | Author: Michael Simkins
• | Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2008
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language:
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780091901516
• | ISBN-10: 0091901510