Cricket Autobiographies

[The Breen Machine]

Have read:
Thorpe
Botham v1
Botham v2
Trescothick
Hussain
Atherton (his book "Glorious Summers and Discontents" is fantastic also)
Strauss
Vaughan (also his Ashes diary 2005)
Ponting
Langer
Hayden
Gilchrist
Duncan Fletcher
Flintoff
Stewart
Gooch
McGrath

Only ones I would avoid are Botham v2 and Flintoff.

Tresco, Thorpe, Gilchrist and Ponting are excellent reads. Strauss very bland as is Alec Stewart's. Gooch and McGrath are biographies rather than auto which I'm not a fan of (Gooch's was co-written is alternates between auto and bi)

I quite liked Gooch's although I am not usually fan of the ghost writer cross-over.

Stewart's was indeed very bland, I enjoyed Fletcher's though.

 

[TopCat]

If you can keep your concentration and plough through then Mike Brearley's "Art of Captaincy" is an excellent read. Not an easy read though

 

[Mrjardine]

Douglas jardines " in quest of the ashes".The man is an absoloute out and out winner!
Not even nearly enough spoke about such a brilliant innovative captain!

 

[Porridge]

Fred: Portrait of a Fast Bowler by John Arlott

 

[ollie c]

Douglas jardines " in quest of the ashes".The man is an absoloute out and out winner!
Not even nearly enough spoke about such a brilliant innovative captain!

"Spartan Cricketer" too...I'd forgotten I'd read that. Very good.

 

[redandwhiterob]

Duncan Hamilton biography of Harold Lawwood is a superbly researched and a cracking read

 

[Twisted]

Cheers,"Summers With Durham" is probably the best cricket book I have read, was an excellent, well-written account of our rise to the top of County Cricket. Also very informative about our early years as a first class Coutny that I had no memory of!

very very good read that.

Fred: Portrait of a Fast Bowler by John Arlott

and that

'A Last English Summer' by Duncan Hamilton is canny.

good, have that but nto read it yet.

 

[Marcosplace]

I would love to read Allan Lamb's and Simon Hughes books. I've heard they are good. My brother loaned them out but someone has kept them ..... Shocking really. Also would love to listen to his Aztec Camera CD. But that's gone too ...

 

[Mrjardine]

I would love to read Allan Lamb's and Simon Hughes books. I've heard they are good. My brother loaned them out but someone has kept them ..... Shocking really. Also would love to listen to his Aztec Camera CD. But that's gone too ...

Good morning Britain!

 

[Marcosplace]

Good morning Britain!

Haha.

 

[Mrjardine]

Haha.

Give the graham beecroft of Murton my regards as well!