Slipless In Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket

Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the cliched lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages and mill towns, places with names that sound like 1930s comedians, places that look straight out of The League of Gentlemen, because they are where it was filmed. It is about the little clubs that have, down the years, produced some of the greatest players Britain has ever seen, and at one time spent a fortune on importing the biggest names in the international game to boost their battle for local supremacy. Slipless in Settle is a warm, affectionate and outrageously funny sporting odyssey in which Andrew Flintoff and Learie Constantine rub shoulders with Asbo-tag-wearing all-rounders, there's hot-pot pie and mushy peas at the tea bar, two types of mild in the clubhouse, and a batsman is banned for a month for wearing a fireman's helmet when going out to face Joel Garner ...

Title - Slipless In Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket

Edition -

Author - Harry Pearson

ISBN 13 - 9781408702093

Imprint - Little, Brown

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 08/07/2010

Prize -

No. of pages - 272

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 154 x 234 x 20mm

Weight - 360 g

Languages - English