cricket with balls

After some time The Wisden Cricketer has decided to mention my first book on their pages.

Not sure why, but I thank them anyway.

I notice they don’t review it, perhaps they were unsure what mark to give such a seminal piece of literature knowing that years later it could embarrass them.

So if lulu made you nervous, you can pop over to Amazon and pick up a copy.

Or Amazon in japan.

For those in Italy it is available there too.

Or in Borders.

Being that not enough of you have bought my book, I am forced to make my way into the real world of cricket writing.

Shame on you all.

For the ashes I wll be in the following places:

Helping Patrick Kidd and the Times audience understand Nathan Hauritz.

At TWC talking about the main match ups, the chin vs the chest.

At crikey I will be here, and here.

I might turn up here from time to time as well.

There is probably another one I have forgotten.

So if you catch yourself thinking, Jrod is quiet at the moment, perhaps you should check out some of these places.

Richard over at Sportsreview has received a copy of my book and has written a review of it.

If you can’t be bothered clicking the link, here is some.

“JRod’s blog combines a very Australian ear for a dirty joke, Lester Bangs’ passion, Peter Cook’s refusal to suffer fools and Richie Benaud’s love and respect for the game. You laugh a lot reading this 2008 Disrespective, but often feel like you could use a shower and vigorous scrub afterwards.”

Lawrence Booth of the Guardian has decided to get in on the act of giving my books away.

“the year of the balls 2008: a disrespective” is not your average
cricket book. But the Spin knows a fellow-maverick when it sees one,
which is why the three copies it purloined from the bag of Aussie
author Jarrod Kimber while he was busy drooling over a picture of
Peter Siddle are now up for grabs. All you have to do to win a copy
of a blog-turned-book good enough to persuade Gideon Haigh to write
its foreword is answer the following question:

Australia have just failed dismally in the World Twenty20 for the
second tournament in succession. But who knocked them out in the 2007
edition?

Answers please in an email to lawrence.booth@guardian.co.uk by 12 noon
on Monday 15 June.