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Won't You Dance for Virat Kohli?
The Secret Life and Thoughts of a Cricketing Badger
- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
Former Gloucestershire Media Sports Writer of the Year Rob Harris has been playing village cricket for almost 40 years. In inner cities some kids join street gangs in search of respect, but in Rob's childhood the gangs were village cricket clubs and the weapon of choice was a Gunn & Moore bat. Won't You Dance for Virat Kohli? is an honest, funny and colourful account of sporting obsession and how a childhood passion for cricket can dominate grown-up thoughts, dreams, relationships - and weekends. This is the story of one humble club cricketer's misguided search for personal respect and fulfilment in the strangest of places, foregoing holidays and family time to spend long summer days lounging around village greens with other screwed-up 'weekend warriors', whilst secretly wishing he was somewhere - anywhere - else. It is a book that will resonate with anyone who knows and loves grass-roots cricket.
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1Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Don’t All Boys Want to be Viv Richards?
- Ashes Heroes
- Respect is a Curry House Runner
- Barmy Armies and Hugh the Lazy Woodpecker
- Being Pike in the Cast of Dad’s Army
- It’s Just Not Cricket
- Coming Home
- Tours of Duty
- Oscar’s Flipper
- Some Day the Dots will Connect
- Won’t You Dance for Virat Kohli?
- Whatever Happened to Winston Davis?
- A Sense of Belonging
- Leave Peter Sleep to Me
- Old Father Time
- Regrets? I Have a Few
- Life in the Bubble