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Informationen zum Autor LEIGH is eligible to play for Yorkshire -- under the old rules. WOODHOUSE is a member at Worcestershire. Cricket Lexicon , from John Leigh and David Woodhouse - the acclaimed authors of Football Lexicon - is a ball-by-ball guide to the enjoyably eccentric language of cricket. Zusammenfassung What do Australians mean when they talk of mollygrubbers or sandshoe-crushers ? What are Manhattans and Wagon Wheels doing in the most English of sports? How do you tell flypaper hands from popadom fingers ? Cricket - perhaps more than any other sport - has a language that delights those who know it, and confuses those who don't. While some of us have never actually heard the sound of leather on willow , everybody has heard of bowling a googly and playing a straight bat . But few know what terms like doosra and dobber mean, and how to use them like a connoisseur. From Kennington to Kensington, from Melbourne to Mumbai, talk of cricket (on and off the field) is both well-mannered and bluntly offensive, confusing and crystal-clear, old-world and cutting-edge. To ease the way through these corridors of uncertainty , Leigh & Woodhouse invite you to join them on tour - so next time you talk about the game, you will be giving it some humpty .
