Twirlymen - The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers

Informationen zum Autor Amol Rajan is Comment Editor at the Independent , having previously been a news reporter and Sports News Correspondent for the newspaper. He is also a columnist for the Independent and Evening Standard , and a restaurant critic for the Independent on Sunday . He grew up in Tooting, south London, and from the age of 11 played for Sinjuns Cricket Club (now Sinjuns & Grammarians) in Wandsworth, becoming the youngest captain of a men's team when leading the Sunday First XI in 2002, aged eighteen. www.twitter.com/amolrajan Klappentext They are Twirlymen. Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown, Amol Rajan pays homage to that most eccentric of all sporting heroes - the spin bowler. Zusammenfassung They are Twirlymen. Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown, Amol Rajan pays homage to that most eccentric of all sporting heroes - the spin bowler.

Product details

• Authors: Amol Rajan, Rajan Amol
• Publisher: Yellow Jersey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9780224083256
• ISBN: 978-0-224-08325-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SPORTS & RECREATION / History, history of sport