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This is a wry, acerbic and very funny trip around the world offering real insights into national and cricketing cultures while exploring male attitudes to sex, love and marriage and ultimately revealing what constitutes Englishness. Simon Hughes, a professional cricketer (Middlesex and Durham), played a season in every other major Test match playing country during his 10 1/2 year cricket-playing career - from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies, to India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Zimbabwe. There are fascinating insights into cricket as well as witty observations and hilarious experiences of life abroad, women, bad food, worse accommodation. There are the encounters with the great cricketers from overseas - Richards, Warne, Azharuddin and Ambrose - as well as an evening on the beach with a Sri Lankan homosexual, the fatal attraction of a New Zealand divorcee, managing a double identity in Australia, as best man at an arranged marriage in India and many more strange and funny encounters. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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"Yakking around the world", on the other hand, is the obvious result of good sales figures for "A lot of Hard Yakka" and the rsulting suggestion by the publishing company for some sort of sequel.
Thus, we get Hughes talking about his sexual exploits during his career; none overly interesting but I felt glad that he finally met someone because I knew the end of the book was nigh. ( )