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Arm-ball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket
✍ Scribed by Lawrence Booth
- Book ID
- 110698307
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141905921
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket's vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits' cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers have been up to all these years.