Gideon did one, Athers did one, and even the ECB did one.
But the Ashes couldn’t possibly be dealt with correctly until I stepped in.
So I have.
Cricket with balls is happy to present, ashes 2009: when freddie became jesus.
Available now on Amazon, So take the credit card out of your wallet and let’s fire up the credit card machines.
On the back of the book it says:
“He’s such a pleasure to watch that if I were a mad billionaire who hosted parties that people came to just because there was a lot of booze and freaky shit going on, I’d hire Ian Bell, strip him naked, oil him up and make him practise his cover drive for hours on end in a giant birdcage. Test cricket, though, isn’t that simple.”
So says Jarrod Kimber, who goes where other cricket chroniclers fear to tread. Having left behind a film-making career in Melbourne and with marriage to his Pom girlfriend imminent, Kimber, the Australian author of the cult blog cricketwithballs.com, finds himself in England for the 2009 series.
From his couch, in the stands, and with occasional press passes from the Wisden Cricketer, he produces a unique take on events on and off the field: when he’s not rubbing shoulders with cricket’s glitterati, he’s probably rubbing Steve Waugh up the wrong way. But amid the bawdy humour and ribald ranting is the kind of penetrating insight and love of the game that by the end of the
summer had journalists of a more conventional nature tapping cricketwithballs into their search engines.
So you really should buy it, if the ashes is your thing, it has 25% material from here, but the rest I just made up recently.
If it isn’t your thing, just click on the link to do me a favour.
Congrats! When’s the online version coming out?
Abh, will update you when I know.
Love the cover
Good work mate.
Why not feature some choice selections on the site, so that we 3rd world niggers too may partake of the delicacy.
Had to come here and find you and tell you what I thought about your “please can I get a hundred kumar” comment. Okay you guessed right. I am one of the several million sachin fans – although I’d like to think of myself as a sachin fan with some sense of neutrality. But I really doubt thefact that Sachin had anything to do with the timing of calling the match off. Although it was easy to guess that the match had to wait before sachin got a hundred before being called off, it would have been Dhoni and the manager who must have made that call. And assuming that in the worst of cases, Sachin did influence them to wait a little longer, what’s wrong with that anyway ? He’s worked hard for his 90. Give him his 100 !
Dinesh, If you go through the comments on the three from me post, you’ll see I don’t have a problem with it either, but it is still funny.
Nice!! when r u writing a book on Sehwag :) u want ur books to sell right?! :D
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It is a shame that Alastair Cook is not on his knees in that photo
And some writers live for the funny…
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When can I get a copy here in India?
Naren, It won’t come out in India, for obvious reasons, our best bet is to buy it off Amazon, or way wait for it to go onto the book depository.
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Jrod: “obvious reasons”? Kindly elaborate :)
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Anantha, well it is a book about Australia V England, so selling it in India might not make that much sense. I don’t even have an Australian publisher yet. But if an Indian or Australian publisher wants it, am happy to allow them to sell it.