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A Century of Cricket Quotations
by David Hopps
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd (2000-06-22)
ISBN: 1861053460
EAN: 9781861053466
Dewy Decimal #: 796
Paperback: 351 pages
SKU: B342-1089
Condition: Like New
Comments: UNREAD but may have minor imperfections such as a crease or mark. In stock - quick dispatch, from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Very, very difficult to fault.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-04-12
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Cricket fans attribute to themselves a level of literacy and numeracy that they think lacking in the followers of other, lesser games. Certainly the numeracy element is true, since following a game means understanding the score, but literacy? Wisden apart (more numbers than letters, anyway) most cricket books are rotten; ghosted and enervating autobiographies, cringingly awful comic novels and E.W.Swanton (RIP). Hopp's book is a perfect contrast, since aside from a minute introduction and necessary footnotes, he hasn't written it, but studiously collected it instead. The quotes speak for themselves (ha,ha) - Australian spectator: "Tufnell. Can I borrow your brain? I'm building an idiot." or Gooch (?) referring to Warne's first Ashes ball "If had been a cheese roll it never would have got past him." It's not all comedy and there are no Colemanballs - indeed most of the chapters are tightly focused and discuss particular issues/places/teams in the best way of all. If you've a serious interest in international cricket and like reading (the book is satisfyingly large) you won't get a better idea of both its culture and humour than from this book
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