I wrote a book about cricket
Here’s the blurb:
The effing c-word explores the enormous fun and marital strife to be found in playing village cricket, and its relationship to the big, cash-hungry international roadshow of the professional game. As much for the casual fan as the obsessive player, The effing c-word touches on everything from the aesthetics to the psychology of the game, by way of its language, physics, people, media, laws, history, and of course the famous ‘spirit’ of cricket. The comprehensive glossary is as entertaining as it is exhaustive.
The cricket world was really really nice about it
Off the back of that, I got a column in The Cricket Paper
Which led to another book, a collection of columns
All of which were illustrated by the fabulously talented Neil Smith
