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You, King Cricket reader, will love WG Grace Ate My Pedalo
You may all be very different, but you all have one thing in common – this website. Alan Tyers’ book is not a million miles away from what you might expect to see here.
It is basically a spoof 1896 issue of The Wisden Cricketer, but better than that sounds. Imagine what the Victorians might think of modern cricket – that’s basically the vibe.
Favourite sections are many and include an advertisement for the ‘Indian Territories Pre-eminent League’; 24 hours in the life of the Reverend ML Hayden (“Pray to God for a bit, but this degenerates into a sledging contest”); and a delightfully demented work of sporting fiction about vampires at Lord’s – part bloodsucker drama, part Victorian cricket story.
WG Grace Ate My Pedalo also features our favourite ever use of the word ‘harlot’. Buy it from Amazon
Speaking of a ‘harlot’, that’s an excellent cross-sell there KC :p
I may have to order it in my new years bundle along with the books from James Allen, Jrod and anyone else I can’t get in the shops over here.
I have bought this book, the question is whether or not I can read it and still give it to my Dad for Christmas.
You could give it to him unread and gamble on his lending it to you.
Tip top stuff – favourite bits were Nick Knight’s balloon antics and Beards for Batting ad (baffles bowlers and excites women)
One-clicked it.
Give it to your Dad first, then borrow it to read and never return it.
As a 14-year-old, I bought this book and didn’t understand it but I had been in the park with a bottle of Miaow Miaow (that’s a drink, “innit”?) ending up vomiting on a girl I was trying to snog before being taken home by my mum.
My elder brother did seem to understand it and laughed a lot – reading out an advertisment for a quiz show called “Who wants to be a mill-owner?”, a game of knowledge for the “lower classes” or something.
Wicked.
D Charlton, are you an episode of the inbetweeners?