Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

Title: Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)
ISBN: 9780091901516
Author: Michael Simkins
Rating: ⭐ 4.01 (54 ratings, reviews)

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' tells the hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket."One of Britain's funniest writers ... hilarious." - Daily Mail"Spangled with pain and humour ... Lovely stuff." - Daily Telegraph"Once you've read this account of one man's love affair with cricket, you;'ll never want to read another ghosted autobiography by a Pietersen or a Vaughan again - incompetence and failure is far more fun.' - Michael Atherton"Beautifully written. I couldn't put it down - except to laugh." - Michael Green