Cricket: A Modern Anthology

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Alas, the narrator chosen is dreadful. His voice, for a start, is completely characterless why not a narrator with a solid accent: Lancashire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, anywhere but Nowhereshire?

Then the delivery itself is plonking, far too slow in pace. He makes the material sound as interesting as a child's Ladybird book. Then there are the mispronunciations everywhere, as though he's not that familiar with cricketing and indeed historical and geographical material. In an early chapter, for example, he oscillates between two pronunciations of D'Oliveira. The material itself is not as enthralling as I had expected.

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Because of Jonathan's background and reputation I had expected insights and interesting detail. Instead, some of the material is very superficial. Early in the anthology is coverage of the bodyline tour. None of this material comes across as fresh or is palpable with the immediacy of the strong feelings expressed at the time.

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Instead, we hear a rather dull reminder of the issues and the key figures, as though this is history to be logged dutifully rather than enjoyed. Unfortunately, the dismal narration exacerbates these weaknesses in material. The introduction to this book claims that it will be of particular interest to the cricket fan however such is the appalling pronunciation of some very well known cricketers' names by the person reading it, one is constantly distracted from enjoying the full content.

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Also I found the book to be a little repetitive, covering the same topic on many occasions. If you could sum up Cricket: A Modern Anthology in three words, what would they be?

This is hugely enjoyable but the ineptitude of the narrator's pronunciation is remarkable - how can you mispronounce fracas, desultory, inter-necine, to list but a few? One might forgive the occasional lapse but this is like publishing a book with spelling errors on every page - I would love to watch Jonathan Agnew listen to this and wince every other minute at the crassness of some of the narration "why did I not take 20 minutes to vet the narrator?

Cricket: A Modern Anthology

Playing cricket with mispronunciations - 4 for a name mispronounced "Green-idge"! Nick Taylor is surely not from Barcelona - and don't call him Shirley. How could the performance have been better? The policeman from Allo, Allo? If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Buy the book - if only because Jonathan Agnew is a fine man and the book is otherwise really rather marvellous. A Modern Anthology By: Jonathan Agnew Narrated by: In , Watermelon Pickle was described by one commentator as having "become one of the more popular high school literature materials". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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