Original Spin: Misadventures in Cricket - Couverture souple

Marks, Vic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911630202 ISBN 13 : 9781911630203

Editeur : Allen & Unwin, 2020

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020

The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time.

In April 1974 new recruits Viv Richards, Ian Botham, Peter Roebuck and Vic Marks reported for duty at Somerset County Cricket Club. Apart from Richards, 'all of us were eighteen years old, though Botham seemed to have lived a bit longer - or at least more vigorously - than the rest.'

In this irresistible memoir of a life lived in cricket, Vic Marks returns to the heady days when Richards and Botham were young men yet to unleash their talents on the world stage while he and Roebuck looked on in awe. After the high-octane dramas of Somerset, playing for England was almost an anti-climax for Marks, who became an unlikely all-rounder in the mercurial side of the 1980s.

Moving from the dressing room to the press box, with trenchant observations about the modern game along the way, Original Spin is a charmingly wry, shrewdly observed account of a golden age in cricket.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vic Marks is a former Somerset and England cricketer, who played in six Tests and 34 one-day internationals. He is the cricket correspondent of the Observer and the Guardian and has regularly appeared on the BBC's Test Match Special for over three decades. He lives in Devon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen & Unwin
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911630202
• ISBN 13: 9781911630203
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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