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  • The Last Flanelled Fool

  • My Small Part in English Cricket's Demise and Its Large Part in Mine
  • Written by: Michael Simkins
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

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The Last Flanelled Fool

Written by: Michael Simkins
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Publisher's Summary

Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out, he decides to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England. It's a journey that begins at the birthplace of cricket, takes in the burial site of his favourite ground and even stops along the way to flirt with the love child of WG Grace and Kerry Katona that is Twenty20. It ends with the ultimate cricketing zenith - returning to the field of play to bowl an over to Freddie Flintoff in fading light in front of a capacity crowd.

So can cricket still bring comfort and meaning to his life or is Old Father Time about to call for Michael's bails?

©2011 Michael Simkins (P)2012 Soundings

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