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Can Anyone Hear Me?

Testing Times with Test Match Special on Tour

Peter Baxter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:6th Jun '13

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Test Match Special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in New Zealand.

For 25 years Peter Baxter toured the world for the BBC, producing and commentating on Test Match Special from India and Pakistan to New Zealand and the West Indies.

Drawing extensively on his tour diaries, and with a cast including Henry Blofeld, Jonathan Agnew and the late Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Baxter vividly takes us behind the scenes of TMS on tour - from the threat of arrest in Zimbabwe to commentating from the ramparts of a fort in Sri Lanka.

With summaries of some of the most memorable foreign Tests, this funny and revealing book is the ideal companion to an afternoon in the pavilion.

'The stories are told with avuncular warmth and no little charm.' Rob Smyth, The Cricketer

The joy of Baxter's book is that it communicates a love of cricket and shows why, whatever its flaws, we still need TMS. -- Michael Billington, Wisden Cricketer, on The Best Views from the Boundary

ISBN: 9781906850555

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm

Weight: 284g

352 pages