As wide-eyed juniors, Dave Edwards, Sam Perry and Ian Higgins all dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day. That was before they entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where their hopes and dreams were swiftly extinguished; their cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest. As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they refuse to admit it publicly.
The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant.
*Wisden*
The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick
Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's
belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex
game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most
Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling
at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life,
this is the story. A great read!
*Thomas Keneally*
The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club
dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be
closer to the bone than some of his observations.
*Kerry O'Keeffe*
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