Test Cricket

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Test Cricket is an odyssey into crickets heartand history, filled with heroes, villains,laughter, tears, bats and balls.

No subject has escaped cricket writer and filmmaker JarrodKimber in his chronicling of Test match cricket. He takescricket fans through all the seismic events in cricketstragicomic history, from its accidental birth to its run-inwith death. Lords, maharajahs and refugees haveall played the game that has survived many wars,corruption and terrorism to still be standing stillbe captivating today. Cricket has been dented byhistory, evolved by nature, grown entire nationsand had to fight just to remain. This is not just the story of the people who played the game;this is Test crickets story.

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"Test Cricket is a wonderful read, which will take you nicely into the fifth day if you can stop yourself from reading it all at once, that is." Bunyip

"Unless you have been living under a rock, you know by now that Jarrod Kimber is the finest contemporary young cricket writer." cricketcountry.com

"A must-read for every cricket-lover." cricketcountry.com

Author Bio

Jarrod Kimber was born into a family of cricket fundamentalists in thenorth of Melbourne. He slept with many cricket bats, skipped school towatch tour games, wrote a sitcom set in a cricket club, and played cricketon turf, matting, synthetics, backyards, roads and even against a brick walland a stocking on a clothes line. He owns seven Victorian Bushrangershirts (over 70 ODI shirts from around the world), backpacked aroundthe 03 World Cup and left Melbourne in 2008 to become a cricket writerin the UK.

He has written three books: A Year of the Balls, When Freddie BecameJesus and Australian Autopsy. He was also co-director and writer of thedocumentary Death of a Gentleman. He is the global cricket writer forthe worlds largest cricket website, ESPNcricinfo. He was formerlythe editor of the magazine Spin Cricket. He has commentated for ABCGrandstand and appeared as a talking head on BBC, Talksport, NDTV,3AW, SABC and CNN.

In his career he has covered cricket in India, Australia, New Zealand,South Africa, England, Ireland and Sri Lanka. In the last five years he hasseen 61 Tests, a World Cup, two World T20s, shield cricket, big bash, IPLand womens internationals. His favourite meal was a fish curry out of amassive cauldron in Eden Gardens. He was once choked (sort of accidentally)by a security guard at the WACA, was called the most hated man incricket by a powerful cricket administrator, and ghost-wrote sledges for acounty cricketer.

He provided the cover photo of a P. Diddy album, is a high schooldropout, uses a Charlie French bat, bowls ineffectual leg-spin and lives inSouth London with his wife Miriam and sons Zachariah and Ezekiel.