Arm-ball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket by Lawrence Booth

Arm-ball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket

Lawrence Booth

277 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-ey...

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