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Blowers, Bubbles & Balls By Henry Blofeld, Bill Mitchell

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Book Title: Blowers, Bubbles & Balls By Henry Blofeld, Bill Mitchell

UPC: 9781908724434

ISBN: 9781908724434

EAN: 9781908724434

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Author: Henry Blofeld

Publisher: Wymer Publishing

Topic: Ball Games: Field & Outdoor

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Blowers, Bubbles & Balls breaks away from Henry Blofeld's more conventional journalistic style and is a selection of short stories and anecdotes about some of the more unusual experiences he has encountered throughout his career as a cricket commentator and writer. A light-hearted and lightweight string of anecdotes by international media gadfly, Henry 'Blofly' Blofeld, which has marginally more about wine and women than cricket. However, Blofeld does introduce a few episodes such as his odyssey to the Sydney Hill to meet the owners of the 'Bespectacled Henry Blofly Stand' banner.His stories take the reader around the world and behind the scenes with the cricketing fraternity. From England to Australia, from South America to India and back to the West Indies, Henry tells of his much publicised run-in with Ian Botham, and frankly discusses his relationship with Dennis Lillee. These jolly, jaunty japes and tales are sometimes witty, sometimes racy, sometimes spicy, and occasionally incredulous, but never are they dull.

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Wymer Publishing

ISBN-10

1908724439

ISBN-13

9781908724434

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Author

Henry Blofeld

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Ball Games: Field & Outdoor

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Place of Publication

Bedford

Illustrator(s)

Bill Mitchell

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Author Biography

Cricket has been at the centre of Henry Blofeld's life since he first leaned to play the game at the age of seven. He somehow managed to pass an exam to get to Eton where he played cricket against Harrow at Lord's when he was fifteen. Until he was seventeen he played with some success as a wicket keeper and an opening batsmen, and was in the Eton eleven for three years from 1955 to 1957, the last year as captain. In 1956, at the age of sixteen, he score a hundred for the Public Schools against the Combined Services in their annual two-day game at Lord's, joining Peter May and Colin Cowdrey as the only other two schoolboy players to have done so. Then in June the following year came a severe road accident when he gallantly took on a bus with his bicycle and took no further interest in this world for 28 days. He made a remarkable recovery, but never played cricket with such promise again. He went to King's College, Cambridge where he never scored a run against the examiners and was kicked out after two years. He somehow blagged his way into the Cambridge side in 1959 and had the luck to play in first-class matches against Denis Compton and the great Australian all-rounder, Keith Miller, making a first-class hundred against MCC at Lord's. After a two-and-a-half year spell in the City of London, bowler hat and all, he decided to see if he could write about cricket. However, the first article he ever wrote was about a second eleven football match in 1956 for the Eton College Chronicle. It earned him a robust interview with the headmaster for being rude about Bradfield School which was not a particularly auspicious omen for a career in journalism. The Times decided to use Blowers, as he is affectionately know, as a freelance cricket writer in 1962. The following year The Guardian decided that they would find a home for his cliches and he remained with them as a freelance until The Independent set up shop at the start of the eighties. By then the Sunday Express also provided a home. He also wrote for the Observer and the Daily Telegraph. In 1975 he joined BBC's panel of cricket commentators when he joined the famous Test Match Special team for two one-day games against Australia. His years were spent watching county and a certain amount of Test cricket in England - there was only one year when he commentated on every Test for TMS - and in the winter he toured the cricket playing world. He probably watched more neutral series overseas than those involving England and he often worked for more than one newspaper and often the BBC as well. Blowers began to write books in 1970. He has written in excess of fifteen titles, mostly about cricket, as well as two autobiographies. His theatrical career began in 2002 when Dudley Russell, a theatre agent and husband of poet Pam Ayres, thought he would be able to do a one-man show. Although cricket inevitably forms a part of these shows, they are really more about the extraordinary life he has led and the fascinating people he has bumped into along the way.

Date of Publication

25/04/2016

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

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