Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

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' tells the hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket. "One of Britain's funniest writers ... hilarious." - Daily Mail "Spangled with pain and humour ... Lovely stuff." - Daily Telegraph "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 "Beautifully written. I couldn't put it down - except to laugh." - Michael Green