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Michael Parkinson on Cricket
Michael Parkinson
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Description for Michael Parkinson on Cricket
Paperback. Michael Parkinson on Cricket represents the best and most humorous of the author's journalism on his favourite sport. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 228.
For most of his professional life Michael Parkinson has been a highly regarded sports journalist. This consistently entertaining collection of his best articles reminds us that his first love is cricket and the people who excel at it. His ambition to play for England was thwarted, but not before he opened the batting with a young Dickie Bird at Barnsley.
Along with hilarious memories of his cricket mad father and a lost youth emulating his heroes in street games, Michael Parkinson has written compelling descriptions of great players he has known and the moments or matches during which they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340825082
SKU
V9780340825082
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Michael Parkinson
Born in Yorkshire, Michael Parkinson left school at sixteen with the ambition to play cricket for Yorkshire and England and to write about cricket for the Manchester Guardian. Although he didn't manage to fulfil the first half of his ambition, he has since become one of the most successful journalists of his generation. He wrote a sports column for The ... Read more
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