The Grade Cricketer

The Grade Cricketer PDF Author: Dave Edwards
Publisher: Melbourne Books
ISBN: 1922129895
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Welcome to the world of The Grade Cricketer. Described as the most original voice in cricket, The Grade Cricketer represents the fading hopes and dreams of every ageing amateur sportsman. In this tell-all 'autobiography', The Grade Cricketer describes his cricketing career with unflinching honesty and plenty of humour, in turn providing insights into the hyper-masculine cricket 'dressing room'. This one-time junior prodigy is now experiencing the lean, increasingly existential years of adult cricket. Here, he learns quickly that one will need more than just runs and wickets to make it in the alpha-dominated grade cricket jungle, where blokes like Nuggsy, Bruiser, Deeks and Robbo reign supreme. Through it all, The Grade Cricketer lays bare his deepest insecurities - his relationship with Dad, his fleeting romances outside the cricket club - and, in turn, we witness a gentle maturation; a slow realisation that perhaps, just maybe, there is more to life than hitting 50 not out in third grade and enjoying a few celebratory beers afterwards. Or is there? * * * The Grade Cricketer book is based upon the popular Twitter account, @gradecricketer, which has received critical acclaim for its frighteningly honest portrayal of amateur cricket. Now, the time has finally come for this middling amateur sportsman to tell his story in full. 'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' - Tom Keneally AO.

The Grade Cricketer: Tea and No Sympathy

The Grade Cricketer: Tea and No Sympathy PDF Author: Dave Edwards
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760639680
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
The brilliantly funny new novel featuring The Grade Cricketer, hero of the bestselling cult classic The Grade Cricketer. 'A sequel to The Grade Cricketer? It's like junk time in a second innings - something you just have to be part of.' Gideon Haigh. Is life without cricket worth living? It's a question asked and answered by the Grade Cricketer, as he faces a cricket-free future after a devious plan goes horribly wrong. Hilarious, ridiculous and completely true to life to anyone who's ever spent time in a dressing room, Tea and No Sympathy takes us on a skeweringly funny sporting misadventure through the world of grade cricket and the flawed, damaged and occasionally appalling people who play it, from the creators of the bestselling novel The Grade Cricketer. Praise for The Grade Cricketer: 'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' Tom Keneally 'The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be closer to the bone than some of his observations.' Kerry O'Keeffe 'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. Wisden

The Cricket in Times Square

The Cricket in Times Square PDF Author: George Selden
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466863625
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.

Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid

Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid PDF Author: Alane Ferguson
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380713417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Pampered eleven-year-old rich kid Cricket thinks she has finally found a friend in Dominic, who lives in the low-income houses called crackerboxes, until they quarrel over ownership of a dog and their classroom becomes a courtroom to decide who is right.

The ABC Cricket Book

The ABC Cricket Book PDF Author: Jim Maxwell
Publisher: ABC Enterprises(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ISBN: 9780733304064
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Collection of original writings, photos and advertisements selected for 52 editions of the TABC Cricket Book', giving an overview of test cricket from 1934 onwards. Provides information and commentaries about and by famous cricketers, and previews and analyses of past matches and test series. The compiler is a well-known cricket commentator on ABC radio and took over as editor of the TABC Cricket Book' in 1988.

The Journey

The Journey PDF Author: Steve Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760630539
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
The fascinating and revealing inside account of Steve Smith's journey from cricket-mad kid to Australian Captain.

Sir Donald Bradman

Sir Donald Bradman PDF Author: Dawn Meredith
Publisher: Moshpit Publishing
ISBN: 9780987483218
Category : Cricket players
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Sir Donald Bradman grew up in Australia. He knew he was clever and had cricketing talent. Don Bradman taught himself to play cricket with a cricket stump and a golf ball, and then went on to smash his way through world cricket records. Sir Donald Bradman became the world's greatest batsman of his time. Find out how he did it in this exciting book about his life, brought to you by Dawn Meredith and written with the young reader in mind. Sir Donald Bradman is a very good reference book for school projects and for people learning to read and write English - no matter how old they are.

Oscar and the Cricket

Oscar and the Cricket PDF Author: Geoff Waring
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763645125
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A Start with Science book about moving and rolling. One day Oscar sees a ball in the grass. "Try pushing it!" says Cricket. Oscar learns that the ball rolls slowly in grass and faster on a path, until it bounces off a tree and changes direction. Some things need a push to move, and others use their muscles to move themselves — and to move plenty of other things, too. Back matter includes an index and supplemental activities.

The Shorter Wisden 2017

The Shorter Wisden 2017 PDF Author: Lawrence Booth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472935233
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2017 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, including Matthew Engel looking back at 60 years of Test Match Special, Derek Pringle revealing the secrets of ball-tampering, and Gideon Haigh exploring the evolution of the six. There are also superb pieces by Rob Smyth, Vic Marks and Tanya Aldred, plus reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2016 season. In an age of snap judgments, Wisden's authority and integrity are more important than ever. Yet again this year's edition is truly a “must-have” for every cricket fan. "There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it's obviously Wisden" Andrew Baker in the Daily Telegraph @WisdenAlmanack
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