jarrod kimber

 

My second book on the 2009 Ashes is out through Pitch Publishing. Available online at: Amazon UK

 

It is a book with 70% original content, but also has some of my articles from Crikey, the Wisden Cricketer, the Times and cricketwithballs. It isn't the standard recollection of an ashes series, I refused to watch one day, but I think it is good, and if you can't trust the author, whom can you trust?

This is what it says on the back of the book:

"He's such a pleasure to watch that if I were a mad billionaire who hosted parties that people came to just because there was a lot of booze and freaky shit going on, I'd hire Ian Bell, strip him naked, oil him up and make him practise his cover drive for hours on end in a giant birdcage. Test cricket, though, isn't that simple."

So says Jarrod Kimber, who goes where other cricket chroniclers fear to tread. Having left behind a film-making career in Melbourne and with marriage to his Pom girlfriend imminent, Kimber, the Australian author of the cult blog cricketwithballs.com, finds himself in England for the 2009 series.

From his couch, in the stands, and with occasional press passes from the Wisden Cricketer, he produces a unique take on events on and off the field: when he's not rubbing shoulders with cricket's glitterati, he's probably rubbing Steve Waugh up the wrong way. But amid the bawdy humour and ribald ranting is the kind of penetrating insight and love of the game that by the end of the summer had journalists of a more conventional nature tapping cricketwithballs into their search engines.