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Featured Categories : Sports, Hobbies & Games : Cricket : International : Australia & New Zealand
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In My Autobiography, Aussie leg-spin maestro Shane Warne, perhaps the outstanding cricketer of his generation--and one of the most consistently newsworthy characters in sport--takes stock of a phenomenally successful career, and gives his account of the scandals and controversies that have sent the media into spasms of delighted indignation.From his days as a frustrated teenage wannabe Aussie Rules star, who decided he might as well try his hand at cricket, Warne has almost single-handedly taken the gentle, studious art of spin-bowling and turned it into a thrilling gladiatorial spectacle--on the way gathering career stats that rank him in company with the game's all-time elite.
Warne crashed into the world spotlight in 1993, when his first-ever ball in Ashes cricket made seasoned England star Mike Gatting look like a floundering buffoon:
In the second or so it took to leave my hand, swerve to pitch outside leg stump, fizz past the batsmen's lunge forward and clip off stump, my life did change ... Ian Botham said he hadn't seen the same look of wide-eyed horror on Gatting's face since somebody had stolen his lunch a few years before.
And he has hardly looked back since--on the pitch at least. Outside the boundary rope it has been a different, though no less sensational story. The media has revelled in tales of extra-marital phone-sex, match-fixing controversies, and bust-ups with the game's authorities and fellow professionals--sparking endless nonsensical speculation as to whether this hard-drinking, smoking "yobbo" was too fat, too loud, too arrogant or just plain too much for cricket to take.
This is a candid chronicle of his side of the story, and along the way there are some wonderful revelations about the mysteries of spin-bowling, the professional art of "sledging", and a fascinating insider account of Australia's rise to world dominance. A frank observer of others; an insightful assessor of his own achievements and motivations--and rarely descending into bland PR-consciousness--The King Of Spin has once again confounded all expectations and served up a peach. --Alex Hankin
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This complete guide combines the basics of coaching and cricket in one conscise resource.
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When the only noteworthy trait of an English Test team is a tendency to self-destruct, the latest edition of David Frith's lavishly illustrated chronicle of tests between the Poms and Oz is timely.This delicious book is more than a history of one of the oldest sporting confrontations. The past and its heroes are brought dramatically to life with more than 1,200 pictures covering every match. All the greats are there, from Australian bowler Fred Spofforth, who sides in 1879, through Grace, Rhodes, Bradman, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, to Compton, May, Trueman and Botham.
There is the monochrome reminder of that torrid campaign of 1932-33, which almost severed diplomatic relations, as well as what may well be the first ever picture of an England/Australia match, taken at the Oval in 1880. The glorious contribution by Ian Botham and Bob Willis to the astounding victory at Headingley in 1981 gets the full pictorial treatment, as does the 1986-87 tour--the last time before this book was printed that England held the Ashes.
As well as a reminder that at one time England was capable of beating the old enemy, this is more a superb pictorial record of one of the greatest of all competitions. Enthusiasts will want to sit back and enjoy. --Arnold Woods
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