# Fatty Batter

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- Book: [Fatty Batter](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-simkins/fatty-batter) ([Fatty Batter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-simkins/fatty-batter.md))
- Authors: [Michael Simkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-simkins)
- Publisher: Ebury Press
- ISBN: 978-00-9190-151-6
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.