Overview
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
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780091901516
- | ISBN-10: 0091901510
