The Rules of Backyard Cricket
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| Author | Jock Serong |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
Publication date | 2016 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 291 pp. |
| ISBN | 9781925355215 |
The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a 2016 crime fiction novel by Australian author Jock Serong.[1]
It was described as a "bestseller" on the Publishers Weekly website in October 2016.[2]
This is the story of two Australian brothers who start off playing cricket against each other in their backyard: Wally Keefe who ends up a professional cricketer; and Darren who ends up shot in the knee, bound and gagged in the boot of a car.