"What are the Butchers For?": And Other Splendid Cricket Quotations - Hardcover

Lawrence Booth writes about cricket for the Daily Mail and has written three previous books on cricket.

'This wide-ranging collection of some of the finest and most memorable cricket quotations taps into cricket's richly quirky history while keeping pace with the fast-changing nature of the modern game...An excellent publication - one of the best publications of its kind.' The Egalitarian Fortnightly, Ludhiana (January 1-15, 2010) "This is a magnificent collection with delights - well-known, half-remembered and newly discovered - on practically every page. Lawrence Booth, the former Guardian journalist now writing for ...the Daily Mail, deserves enormous credit for approaching the task with real vim and vigour and not just assembling a cast list of the usual suspects." The Wisden Cricketer '...its appeal lies in the fact that it is attractively produced and well laid out, many of the quotations shedding light on one another, with the generally expert hand of Lawrence Booth providing context and other relevant asides.' ACS Spring Journal (2010)