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Fibber in the Heat | Miles Jupp

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** Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ** Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea. By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon, he finds himself in cricket heaven - drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team. But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Miles as he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous, charming, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who's ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.

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Fibber in the Heat | Miles Jupp

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Read the whole thing on the plane from Ben Gurion to Luton and giggled consistently throughout. Jupp is endearingly self-effacing and refreshingly honest about his incompetence. Given his subsequent rise as a comedian and satirist, this lovingly detailed career cul-de-sac is charming and delightful.

Obviously the delight is multiplied for those besotted with David Gower and beguiled by TMS, but I think there's enough here also for a layperson.

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