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

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From the author of Guardian Unlimited'sThe Spin
Few sports, with the possible exception of tae kwon do, have a vocabulary as rich and as apparently grounded in freemasonry as cricket. If batsmen are not being bamboozled by doosras, they are pulling through midwicket or reverse-sweeping to third man. Bowlers seem to be forever peppering their maidens with googlies, or fiddling mischievously with the seam. Grown men just can't stop shouting funny things at other slightly older grown men. Everyone, everywhere, it seems, is doing something that is incapable of being expressed in plain English. So what, exactly, is cricket?
Lawrence Booth, author of the Guardian Unlimited'sacclaimed weekly column The Spin, makes the perfect guide to this often inhospitable terrain. Exploding pomposity, misty-eyed cliches and old gits' cynicism along the way, he explains the history and institutions of the game through its language, and nothing - from W.G. Grace and the Golden Age to the (brief) advent of aluminium bats and Kerry Packer - will ever seem quite the same again.
What has Albania got to do with anything? Who was George Davis? And what on earth is a freaker? From bats and balls to the names of the big, the smaller and the frankly obscure, via the quirks, oddities and irrelevancies that make up the game, Arm-ball to Zooteris the definitive look - the perfect all-rounder - at the weird and wonderful world of a language we could all do with speaking just a little more fluently.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

After leaving university in 1998, Lawrence Booth was generously saved from a 9 to 5 office job by the Wisden work-experience scheme. Since 2002 he has written for the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Timesand the Guardian, where he makes random and unexpected appearances in the features section. He is the author of The Spin, Guardian Unlimited'sirreverent weekly cricket email, and regularly writes their acclaimed over-by-over coverage. He has been a contributing editor to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and published his first book, Cricket: Celebrating the Modern Game around the World, in 2005. He
fully expects Northamptionshire never to win the county championship, but lives on in hope in south-west London.
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