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Angus Bell is innocently working in the Montreal magazine industry when, taking advantage of a psychic’s vision, he sets off to discover the secret cricketing world of Eastern Europe. From tournaments on ice in Estonia to university leagues in the crumbling Crimea, and from a Croatian military island to communist Belarus, Bell learns how Slavs play the Englishman’s game. Encounters with fingerless Tamil Tigers in Prague, a bomb-plotter in the Austrian Alps, a Guatemalan anarchist, and an MI6 agent making out lineup cards reveal the shadowy side of Slavic cricket. But nothing can stop Bell from playing the game or even becoming the captain of an international team. Between matches, he’s pursued by the KGB, becomes embroiled in a drug bust on the Midnight Express, and needs emergency treatment from a Romanian dentist. This boisterous traveler’s tale redefines the spirit of cricket, converting even sworn enemies of the game into avid fans.
Price: $13.99
Pages: 352
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date:
06 January 2012
ISBN: 9781926812007
Format: eBook
Angus Bell is a twenty-seven-year-old whisky-swilling Scotsman with a first-class degree in English, Flying Saucers, and Space Studies. He has visited forty countries, and has written for the South African Sunday Times, Inside Sport in Australia, the US Student Traveller, Cricinfo in India and The Wisden Cricketer in the UK. He lives in Montreal.
1. When a Psychic Tells You You're Going to Do Something, You Do It
2. Batting in the Baltic
3. The Batsman Who Would Be King
4. It Was Like a Stephen King Novel
5. Fielders Without Fingers
6. The Village that Beat Poland
7. The Worst Coaches in the World
8. The Lost Tribe of Mežica
9. Sex on the Wicket
10. On the Trail or Torvill and Dean
11. The Spy Who Left Cricket Cold
12. The Cricket and Kickboxing Club of Bulgaria
13. Midnight Express
14. A Man on My Chest
15. Transylvanian Toothache
16. Trotsky Was a Ukrainian Cricketer (of Sorts)
17. Inspector Morski
18. Pummelling the Poles
19. Psychic Revisited
2. Batting in the Baltic
3. The Batsman Who Would Be King
4. It Was Like a Stephen King Novel
5. Fielders Without Fingers
6. The Village that Beat Poland
7. The Worst Coaches in the World
8. The Lost Tribe of Mežica
9. Sex on the Wicket
10. On the Trail or Torvill and Dean
11. The Spy Who Left Cricket Cold
12. The Cricket and Kickboxing Club of Bulgaria
13. Midnight Express
14. A Man on My Chest
15. Transylvanian Toothache
16. Trotsky Was a Ukrainian Cricketer (of Sorts)
17. Inspector Morski
18. Pummelling the Poles
19. Psychic Revisited