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Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

Adam Collins author Geoff Lemon author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Fairfield Books

Published:17th Nov '25

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No sport does storytelling like cricket – a game as full of heroes, villains, politics and drama as any
Shakespearean play.
And few have explored those stories as far and wide as the presenters of the award-winning and beloved
podcast The Final Word, Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the history
spin-off to the podcast, they have followed their listeners’ clues to track down the wildest characters, matches
and situations the game has ever seen.
Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics brings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, such as the 1879 riot in
Sydney sparked by an umpire’s call, the all-rounder who tried to rob the Catholic Church, the biggest defeat in
history, and much, much more.
Produced as a small hardback with fabulous original illustrations by Karen Wallis, Bedtime Tales is perfect for
the casual cricket fan and would make an excellent Christmas or birthday gift.

ISBN: 9781915237705

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages