Lawrence Booth: Cricket, Lovely Cricket?: An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game [2009] paperback TASCH Covers San Marco & the

Covers San Marco & the Palazzo Ducale

Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender

With breathtaking cruelty and devastating humor

fights with quarrelsome neighbours

Lawrence Booth: Cricket, Lovely Cricket?: An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game [2009] paperback TASCH Covers San Marco & theCricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What