Last Flannelled Fool - My Small Part in English Cricket''s Demise and Its Large Part in Mine

Informationen zum Autor Michael Simkins trained at RADA. He has appeared in more than 70 plays! stage highlights include A View from the Bridge at the National Theatre as well as musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia. He also directed Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Greenwich Theatre. He has made countless TV appearances - recent credits include Foyle's War and My Family - as well as turns on the silver screen in such films as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has worked with luminaries as diverse as Anthony Perkins! John Malkovich! Michael Gambon and Buster Merryfield. He lives with his actress wife Julia in London. Klappentext Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate! obsessive! technically inept! and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season! not only might it spell the end of his long career! he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers. He decides instead to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England in search of that golden time in his youth when his passion for the game was fi rst kindled. It's a journey that begins in May in light drizzle at the birthplace of cricket! takes in the burial site of his favourite ground (now a Marks & Spencer) and even stops along the way to flirt with the love child of WG Grace and Kerry Katona that is Twenty20. It ends with the ultimate cricketing zenith - returning to the fi eld of play to bowl an over to Freddie Flintoff in fading light in front of a capacity crowd. So can cricket still bring comfort and meaning to his life or is Old Father Time about to call for Michael's bails?

Product details

• Authors: Michael Simkins
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9780091927547
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192754-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic