{"product_id":"the-wit-of-cricket-stories-from-crickets-best-loved-personalities","title":"The Wit of Cricket: Stories from Cricket's best-loved personalities","description":"Product Description\n\nA bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes and stories from cricket's best-loved personalities. Cricket is a funny old game - even when rain stops play!\n\nNow you can read not only the most popular stories by five of the game's all-time great characters - Richie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston and Fred Trueman - but also the humour and insights of modern players including Michael Atherton, Andrew Flintoff, Darren Gough, Kevin Pietersen and Shane Warne.\n\nCrammed full of dozens of hilarious anecdotes about legendary Test cricketers such as Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Denis Compton, Michael Holding and Merv Hughes - plus broadcasting gaffes, sledging, short-sighted umpires and the first male streaker at Lord's!\n\nAbout the Author\n\nBarry Johnston appeared with the vocal\ngroup Design on over fifty TV shows in the\n1970s. He presented the breakfast show on\nKLOA-AM in California and has broadcast\nregularly on BBC radio. He now runs\nBarn Productions and produced the award-\nwinning audiobooks An Evening with\nJohnners and The Wit of Cricket. He is a\nbook editor for major publishers as well as\nhis own books such as the Sunday Times\nbestseller Letters Home 1926-1945, and is\nthe author of biographies of Kenneth Horne\nand of his father, Brian Johnston.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton General Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40234153345109,"sku":"9780340978894N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/18e497ef-e43c-47de-a75f-09e7ac7630a3.jpg?v=1660224910","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-wit-of-cricket-stories-from-crickets-best-loved-personalities","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}