There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't
Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in
Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated
humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and Wisden, a
deadly weapon when combined with a thermos flask. Rain Men is
different. Like the moment the genius of Richie Benaud first
revealed itself to you, it is a cricketing epiphany, a landmark in
the literature of the game. Shining the light meter of reason into
cricket's incomparable madness, Marcus Berkmann illuminates all the
obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and
pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual
humiliation of England's middle order, the partially-sighted
umpires, the battling average that reads more like a shoe size. As
satisfying as a perfectly timed cover drive, and rather easier to
come by, Rain Men offers essential justification for anyone who has
ever run a team-mate out on purpose or secretly blubbed at a video
of Botham's Ashes.
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