Confessions of a Thirteenth Man

For years, John Harms dreamed he would play Test cricket. He dreamed of sweet off - drives, long - haul flights and days of champagne punting. Reality, however, intervened, in the form of an observable absence of ability, a peerless resistance to hard work and a complete lack of style. So he became a Test tourist in his own way: on a shoestring budget, at the wheel of his dodgy Camira, he followed the Ashes series around Australia. To perform this difficult feat he needed to overcome the distraction of a dangerous and clever woman named Grace. Confessions of a Thirteenth Man is the riotously funny account of Harms' adventures on the road and inside cricket's fields of glory. It's a story of painful love, nifty mechanical solutions and the shared joy of sport. Australia's rich sporting culture has at last found the chronicler it deserves.Harms, John is the author of 'Confessions of a Thirteenth Man', published 1999 under ISBN 9781876485160 and ISBN 1876485167.