A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
ISBN: 9780091901516
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 218 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 19 mm
Once you've read this account of one man's love affair with cricket, you'll never want to read another ghosted autobiography by a Pietersen or a Vaughan again - incompetence and failure is far more fun - Michael Atherton
An instant classic - Stephen Fry
The childhood recollections, suffused with warmth and spangled with pain and humour, are the book's unique selling point. Lovely stuff - Daily Telegraph
Simmo may be a shockingly average amateur cricketer, but when it comes to self- deprecating wit and telling a good anecdote, he's as sprightly as Garry Sobers in his prime ... anecdotes and quirky characters hurtle down at us like yorkers bowled by a fast bowler that I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to name ... an entertaining read indeed - Sunday Times
Michael writes about disaster, humiliation, rejection and ridicule - the hilarious truth - Nicholas Hytner
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