A fat boy with a passion for sweets & a loathing for games the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter & a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates Fatty Batter is the bestselling & hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.