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The Grade Cricketer : Tea and No Sympathy

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by Sam Perry, Ian Higgins and Dave Edwards
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/11/2018
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The brilliantly funny new novel featuring The Grade Cricketer, hero of the bestselling cult classic The Grade Cricketer.

Is life without cricket worth living? It's a question asked and answered by the Grade Cricketer, as he faces a cricket-free future after a devious plan goes horribly wrong.

Hilarious, ridiculous and completely true to life to anyone who's ever spent time in a dressing room, Tea and No Sympathy takes us on a skeweringly funny sporting misadventure through the world of grade cricket and the flawed, damaged and occasionally appalling people who play it, from the creators of the bestselling novel The Grade Cricketer.

ISBN:
9781760527440
9781760527440
Category:
Cricket
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-11-2018
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.23kg

'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' Tom Keneally

'The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be closer to the bone than some of his observations.' Kerry O'Keeffe

'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. Wisden

'A sequel to The Grade Cricketer? It's like junk time in a second innings - something you just have to be part of.' Gideon Haigh.
Sam Perry

As wide-eyed junior, Sam Perry dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day.

That was before he entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where his hopes and dreams were swiftly extinguished; he cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest.

As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they refuse to admit it publicly.

Ian Higgins

As wide-eyed junior, Ian Higgins dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day.

That was before he entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where his hopes and dreams were swiftly extinguished; he cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest.

As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they refuse to admit it publicly.

Dave Edwards

As wide-eyed junior, Dave Edwards dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day.

That was before he entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where his hopes and dreams were swiftly extinguished; he cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest.

As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they refuse to admit it publicly.

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PURCHASED FOR MY SON WHO WAS THRILLED.

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More wry and incisive satire looking at the state of Aussie cricket. A fun and quick read, providing more enjoyment than watching the 'new look' Australian Cricket Team this season!

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