Ebook: Batting on the Bosphorus: a Liquor-Fueled Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe

Introduction; 1 When a Psychic Tells You You're Going to Do Something . . .; 2 Batting in the Baltic; 3 The Batsman Who Would Be King; 4 It Was Like a Stephen King Novel; 5 Fielders Without Fingers; 6 The Village That Beat Poland; 7 The Worst Coaches in the World; 8 The Lost Tribe of Mezica; 9 Sex on the Wicket; 10 On the Trail of Torvill and Dean; 11 The Spy Who Left Cricket Cold; 12 The Cricket and Kickboxing Club of Bulgaria; 13 Midnight Express; 14 A Man on My Chest; 15 Transylvanian Toothache; 16 Trotsky Was a Ukrainian Cricketer (of Sorts); 17 Inspector Morski.;Angus Bell is innocently working in the Montreal magazine industry when, taking advantage of a psychic's vision, he sets off to discover the secret cricketing world of Eastern Europe. From tournaments on ice in Estonia to university leagues in the crumbling Crimea, and from a Croatian military island to communist Belarus, Bell learns how Slavs play the Englishman's game. Encounters with fingerless Tamil Tigers in Prague, a bomb-plotter in the Austrian Alps, a Guatemalan anarchist, and an MI6 agent making out lineup cards reveal the shadowy side of Slavic cricket. But nothing can stop Bell from.