It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating cricket's colourful characters

Author:   Peter Roebuck
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781741145427


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Recommended Age:   From
Format:   Paperback
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In It Takes All Sorts, Peter Roebuck meanders through his 25-year career in reporting cricket, to reveal the people and the personalities who have touched his life and contributed to his life-long passion for the game. Roebuck provides warts-and-all insights into the comings and goings, greats and not-so-greats, debuts and retirements, the controversies of recent professional cricket and great innings in between. Roebuck has seen it all and isn't afraid to comment: he's interviewed Sir (or is that Saint?) Garfield Sobers' mum, was on the scene (and on the front page) when Gilchrist walked, poked gentle fun at Inzamam's fielding, and touched many with his account of young Sri Lankan boys playing cricket on a beach in Galle. Peter Roebuck pulls no punches - whether friend or foe, all his subjects are linked by the great and noble game of cricket and he is not afraid to tell it how he sees it.

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Author:   Peter Roebuck
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781741145427


ISBN 10:   1741145422
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Recommended Age:   From
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 Arrivals Chapter 2 Champions and their deeds Chapter 3 Soaring subcontinentals Chapter 4 Breaking barriers Chapter 5 To be an Englishman Chapter 6 Shafts of lightning Chapter 7 From the Caribbean Chapter 8 From various angles Chapter 9 From the Dark Continent Chapter 10 Salt of the earth Chapter 11 Australians at work Chapter 12 Reputations Chapter 13 Leaving the stage Chapter 14 Retirements Chapter 15 Dealing with life Chapter 16 Departures Afterword

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Peter Roebuck graduated in Law from Cambridge University, and played for Somerset as an opening batsman for some fifteen years, the last few as captain. In the late seventies he started spending the off season in Australia, first of all as a teacher at Cranbrook and then as a fulltime journalist and commentator. Best known to Australian cricket fans as the incisive and sometimes controversial, cricketing voice of the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC radio, Peter Roebuck's career has spanned 25 of the most exhilarating years of world cricket.

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