Win a copy of 'The England Cricket Miscellany'

07/07/2008

There is something for every cricket lover in The England Cricket Miscellany. The England cricket team has a long and storied history, but this book is not exclusively a work of reference, or a compendium of lists, or a collection of biographies, or a compilation of trivia. It is a gloriously quirky mixture of all these things and much more besides.

 

Within these pages, the reader will learn hundreds of fascinating facts about the England team on a wide range of topics, from the Bodyline Tour to Freddie Flintoff’s nocturnal navigation of a pedalo, encompassing the notable feats with bat and ball of both the cricketing gods and their assistant pie-throwers and the epic Test match encounters in which they participated. A veritable cornucopia of information about the quintessential summer game, The England Cricket Miscellany will bring hours of reading pleasure to every fan.

 

It has also been updated to include England’s famous one-day series victory in Sri Lanka and the Test tours to Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the winter of 2007–08

John White is a lifelong sports fanatic who has dedicated his spare time, and his computer, to compiling a massively comprehensive database of sporting facts and figures. He is the author of all eight of the Carlton Sports Miscellanies and White’s Sports Almanac 2008. A Belfast man, he was won over to cricket during the nerve-jangling 2005 Ashes series, and has researched this book with all the passion of a recent convert! He lives in Co. Down, Northern Ireland.

 

The England Cricket Miscellany is published by Cralton Books in July 2008, RRP £9.99.

 

Mature Times has 10 copies of the book to give away. For a chance to win a copy, just answer the following question.

 

 

Which International cricket umpire was interviewed for the Personality Interview section of the website?

 

Competition closes 29th July 2008