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" Sometimes I forgot to laugh / "
Peter Roebuck.
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BL
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1030376
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b784746
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| Main Entry
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Roebuck, Peter,1956-2011.
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Sometimes I forgot to laugh /\ Peter Roebuck.
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| Publication Statement
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Crows Nest, Australia :: Allen & Unwin,, 2004.
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xii, 292 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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1741143896
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: 9781741143898
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Antecedents -- To Bath -- Millfield -- Professional debut -- More blues -- Greece -- Down under -- Somerset resurgent 1978-79 -- Mixed results 1980-82 -- Decline and fall -- Learning to lead -- Somerset affair -- Into the press box -- To regroup and rebuild -- Towards retirement -- Australian renaissance -- Glory years: Border, Taylor and Waugh -- Cricketing controversies -- Devon days -- Africa -- Trial and tribulation -- Australian way -- Power of the pen -- Two great batsmen -- Epilogue.
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From the heyday of the Somerset cricket club to the controversy of the World Series and ten happy years with Devon, Peter Roebuck played alongside some of the true greats of the world game - Viv Richards, Joel Garner, Ian Botham, Martin Crowe and a young Steve Waugh were all team-mates. Considered by some 'the best cricketer to have never played for England', he did in fact captain an English team which travelled to Holland. Their emphatic victory in the second Test was completely overshadowed by their shock defeat in the opening game! A dedicated coach and mentor to young enthusiasts, Roebuck first came across some of Australia's current crop of cricket superstars as brash young novices at the Academy - Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting and a portly young man with the most dangerous spinning finger in the world, one Shane Warne. In Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, Peter Roebuck gives his readers an insight into the hitherto very private life of a complex and sometimes troubled man, but one always sustained by his abiding passion for the game of cricket.
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Cricket players.
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Cricket.
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Cricket players.
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Cricket.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.358/0994
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796.3580924
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927.96358
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GV915.R64A3 2004
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