Lawrence Booth: 1 book
Arm-ball to Zooter
A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball...
