Cricket Books

[stumpski]

Shouldn't be a problem - as soon as I remember where I put the book.

 

[neville cardus]

Open with g mail. They have no problem with big attachments.

Apparently, though, they have problems letting me see your emails. Did you receive the one that I sent you three days ago?

 

[SJS]

Apparently, though, they have problems letting me see your emails. Did you receive the one that I sent you three days ago?

NO. Nothing.

 

[SJS]

Wait wait wait.

There is one.

Dont know how I missed it.

 

[SJS]

Sorry Rodney. That is not the email is I use so much nowadays hence the confusion.

Okay listen. This is what we will do.

I will scan the entire book. Put the images on a CD and send the CD to you. I am just now sending you an e mail from the id I use. Reply there with the address where you want me to send the CD. After that give me time to get to scan the entire book. Once it is done and you have received the CD we will see how many drinks you owe me besides the dinner

 

[neville cardus]

NO. Nothing.

Ironically, the power went out shortly after my musings on power-outages. I was about to cite that as the likely cause of your non-receipt when you spotted it.

 

[neville cardus]

Sorry Rodney. That is not the email is I use so much nowadays hence the confusion.
Okay listen. This is what we will do.
I will scan the entire book. Put the images on a CD and send the CD to you. I am just now sending you an e mail from the id I use. Reply there with the address where you want me to send the CD. After that give me time to get to scan the entire book.

Sounds great. Many thanks.

Once it is done and you have received the CD we will see how many drinks you owe me besides the dinner

I shall definitely find away of repaying you.

 

[SJS]

Sounds great. Many thanks.



I shall definitely find away of repaying you.

Okay check your mail box.

 

[neville cardus]

I had lost an inordinate amount of faith in GMail before your response solved the riddle.

 

[pasag]

Archie Mac's review of Grovel!

 

[stumpski]

Just finished that book myself, I enjoyed it very much as well. One thing I liked about it, apart from the wealth of interviews, is that every few pages the action stops and we get a little potted biography - two or three pages - of one of the main players, Steele, Close, Lloyd, Roberts or Knott. I quite liked that, because cricket is a game with time for reflection after all, and I thought of these little interludes as drinks breaks. There's also a handy 'where are they now' type appendix.

 

[archie mac]

Just finished that book myself, I enjoyed it very much as well. One thing I liked about it, apart from the wealth of interviews, is that every few pages the action stops and we get a little potted biography - two or three pages - of one of the main players, Steele, Close, Lloyd, Roberts or Knott. I quite liked that, because cricket is a game with time for reflection after all, and I thought of these little interludes as drinks breaks. There's also a handy 'where are they now' type appendix.

Yes, I also enjoyed it. It seems only LT did not enjoy it!

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Yes, I also enjoyed it. It seems only LT did not enjoy it!

It was one of my favourite years, not just in the cricket world (thank you Karen), and this book just doesn't capture it. It's a mess with fairly meaningless events thrown in the wrong places and I find most of the so-called interviews very dull.

 

[SJS]

It was one of my favourite years, not just in the cricket world (thank you Karen), and this book just doesn't capture it. It's a mess with fairly meaningless events thrown in the wrong places and I find most of the so-called interviews very dull.

I have just got my copy. Yet to read it. Its in queue

 

[BHG86]

I expect it has been mentioned, but 75 pages is alot to trawl through...

Penguins Stopped Play is my personal favourite cricket book.

Autobiography wise I really enjoyed Mike Atherton's, he is a personal hero however.

 

[zaremba]

I've seen Gideon Haigh's book about the 2005 Ashes praised on this thread.

However I think he wrote two: one which was published in about October 2005 and one (A Fair Field And No Favour) which came out some time later.

Which is the better, or is it worth reading both?

(This from a misty-eyed English fan for whom 2005 was pretty much the best summer of my life).

 

[fredfertang]

I've seen Gideon Haigh's book about the 2005 Ashes praised on this thread.

However I think he wrote two: one which was published in about October 2005 and one (A Fair Field And No Favour) which came out some time later.

Which is the better, or is it worth reading both?

(This from a misty-eyed English fan for whom 2005 was pretty much the best summer of my life).

I suspect it's the same book just retitled for the more sensitive Australian market

 

[archie mac]

I've seen Gideon Haigh's book about the 2005 Ashes praised on this thread.

However I think he wrote two: one which was published in about October 2005 and one (A Fair Field And No Favour) which came out some time later.

Which is the better, or is it worth reading both?

(This from a misty-eyed English fan for whom 2005 was pretty much the best summer of my life).

I suspect it's the same book just retitled for the more sensitive Australian market

Yes the same book

 

[archie mac]

I expect it has been mentioned, but 75 pages is alot to trawl through...

Penguins Stopped Play is my personal favourite cricket book.

Autobiography wise I really enjoyed Mike Atherton's, he is a personal hero however.

We have a review of PSP up on the site

I also enjoyed the Atherton book

 

[zaremba]

Yes the same book

Thanks Archie.