Synopses & Reviews
A bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes, and stories from cricket's best-loved personalities. Cricket is a funny old gameeven when rain stops play! Now you can read not only the most popular stories by five of the game's all-time great charactersRichie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston, and Fred Truemanbut also the humor and insights of modern players including Michael Atherton, Andrew Flintoff, Darren Gough, Kevin Pietersen, and Shane Warne. Crammed full of dozens of hilarious anecdotes about legendary Test cricketers such as Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Denis Compton, Michael Holding, and Merv Hughesplus broadcasting gaffes, sledging, short-sighted umpires, and the first male streaker at Lord's!
Synopsis
You've enjoyed the CDs, now enjoy The Wit of Cricket published as a book for the first time. Now you can read not only the jokes, anecdotes and hilarious stories of cricket's all-time great personalitiesDickie Bird, Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston, Fred Trueman, and Richie Benaud, but also the humor of modern legendsShane Warne, Michael Atherton, Mike Selvey, Darren Gough, and many others. This book includes dozens of entertaining stories about England players such as Denis Compton, Len Hutton, and Ian Bothamnot to mention broadcasting gaffes, sledging, short-sighted umpires, and the first male streaker at Lord's!
About the Author
Barry Johnston is cricket legend Brian Johnston's son. He runs BarryMour Productions and has produced audio cassettes by Tony Benn, Dickie Bird, Jack Dee, and many others, and has edited several books including A Delicious Slice of Johnners and Letters Home 1926-1945.