Cricket

This one did not at first glance appeal to me very much. What appeared to be the life story of a cricket lover, as opposed to the autobiography/biography of ...

As in any book of this type there is a good deal of humour present – I particularly liked the story that is referred to as The Burger Moment, which is quite simply a very funny story. is a book that took me just over a day to read. It was enlightening to learn where, given the way Geoff in turn has passed on his love of the game to his children and grandchildren, I went wrong in my parenting endeavours. There is a central role too for his older brother Roy, who seems to have been cut from similar cloth although, as a man who clearly greatly values the history of the game, I think I might even get on better with him than with Geoff. I am pretty sure that this is the first book that Hart has written, and realistically it does amount to an autobiography, although it certainly isn’t a seamless one, the chronology jumping around somewhat. The comparison he drew between his feelings when Steve Harmison bowled the first ball of the 2006/07 Ashes campaign and how he felt when the first exit poll in the 2019 General Election was announced assured me that this was a man whose company I would enjoy, and so I did.