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The Breen Machine

The Breen Machine

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I know this was released decades ago but I only got around to reading it the other week. Thoroughly recommend it, brilliantly written and lots of humour.

Also bought Derek Pringle's Pushing the Boundaries at the same time, similar type of book really in that it details in a chronological fashion a bit of a diary of his career.
 

The Breen Machine said:
I know this was released decades ago but I only got around to reading it the other week. Thoroughly recommend it, brilliantly written and lots of humour.

Also bought Derek Pringle's Pushing the Boundaries at the same time, similar type of book really in that it details in a chronological fashion a bit of a diary of his career.
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Both excellent. I didnt particularly warm to either as cricketers or comnentator/journalists but their books sre a good read.
 
Yes, I have this one and it’s excellent. I also recommend Hughes book on durhams first season as a championship team.

derek pringles book is another I thoroughly enjoyed. Pushing the boundaries
 
one thing if you like getting the Wisden every year but the price is steep. I subscribed to Bloomsbury publishing and they send it every year for £25

cheapest I can get these days after the online book store who did it for a tenner went bust . The book people
 
On the subject of cricket books I would recommend Harry Pearson's latest offering, 'First Of The Summer Wine' about the lives of the legendary Yorkshire Triumvirate George Hirst, Schofield Haigh and Wilfred Rhodes in the days when some of their players actually managed to play the game with a smile on their faces. (Pearson reckons this ended in 1921 with the death of Haigh never to return again)

Almost worth the price to simply look at Rhodes' cricketing stats at the back of the book!
 
The Breen Machine said:
I know this was released decades ago but I only got around to reading it the other week. Thoroughly recommend it, brilliantly written and lots of humour.

Also bought Derek Pringle's Pushing the Boundaries at the same time, similar type of book really in that it details in a chronological fashion a bit of a diary of his career.
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Hope Derek Pringle is a better writer than he was at cricket, how he ever got a game for England I'll never know.
 
The Breen Machine said:
I know this was released decades ago but I only got around to reading it the other week. Thoroughly recommend it, brilliantly written and lots of humour.

Also bought Derek Pringle's Pushing the Boundaries at the same time, similar type of book really in that it details in a chronological fashion a bit of a diary of his career.
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Read it a couple of times, enjoyable read.
 
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