Ten years after his classic Rain Men
- crickets answer to Fever Pitch said the Daily Telegraph
- Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange & wondrous world of village cricket where players sledge their team-mates umpires struggle to count up to six the bails arent on straight & the team that fields after a hefty tea invariably loses. This time hes on the trail of the Ageing Cricketer having suddenly realised that he is one himself & playing in a team with ten others every weekend. In their minds they run around the field as fast as ever; its only their legs that let them down. ZIMMER MEN asks all the important questions of middle-aged cricketers. Why is that boundary rope suddenly so far away? Are you doomed to getting worse as a cricketer or could you get better? How many pairs of trousers will your girth destroy in one summer? Chronicling the 2004 season with its many humiliating defeats & random injuries this coruscatingly funny new book laughs in the face of middle age & starts thinking seriously about buying a convertible.