Fatty Batter:  Funniest Book This Decade?

I have just finished reading "Fatty Batter" by Michael Simkins.  The title sounds like a reference to the way that the Scots cook their Mars bars, but the book is in fact an autobiographical account of one man's cricketing misadventures.

The somewhat corpulent figure of Harry Baldwin (see below) was the inspiration for the book's fraternal band of cricketing misfits known as the Harry Baldwin Occasionals.

The Victorian spin bowler Harry Baldwin

I thought that in order to enjoy this book, you needed to be:

• an Englishman
• born in 1956
• with a passing knowledge of cricket

However Michele, who is reading the book now, ticks none of these boxes and - judging by the steady stream of laughter - it could just be that it is a very well written book.