Packed with revealing anecdotes, Percival explores the often complex relationship between the media and top-level sport, providing expert guidance on themes such as leaks, mind games and how to handle criticism. The book covers all the crucial aspects of dealing with the media in its increasingly numerous forms - the tactics to employ, interview ......
As a cricketer, Frank Worrell mesmerised spectators with his stylish play, his elegance and his classy strokes - an artist in a realm replete with talent. Apart from that finesse on the field, he epitomised the sporting characteristics associated with the finer aspects of the game: the spirit of cricket. He relentlessly advocated for more ......
No other sport offers up stories quite like the ones collected in Sticky Dogs and Stardust. Only cricket allows recreational players to rub shoulders with international stars and even superstars in a fully competitive context, providing them with some of the most cherished memories of their lives.
The latest instalment of the award-winning Sticky Dogs and Stardust series, ‘The Third innings’ is another cache of fascinating and – in many cases – previously untold stories documenting the experiences of superstar cricketers playing for recreational cricket teams.
Unlike other sports, cricket – and especially the club ......
Unlike other sports, cricket - and especially the club cricket of England and the British Isles - allows recreational players to rub shoulders with international stars and even superstars in a fully competitive context, providing them with some of the most cherished memories of their lives. As in the first book, Scott Oliver has assembled two ......
Paul Edwards has a deep and abiding love of the game. And because of that, he has been immersed in its characters and characteristics for as long as he can remember.
A fresh edition of one of the classics of English cricket history, written by one of the game’s most talented and distinctive writers. With a mixture of detail and delight, shrewd assessment and personal appreciation, Alan Gibson tells the fascinating story of the men who have led England in its first 100 years of Test cricket: from James ......
There are few better qualified to write the sequel to Alan Gibson’s masterpiece than Vic Marks, who played under four of the captains of whom he writes and has followed subsequent ones from press and radio commentary boxes. He begins this volume by reflecting on the idiosyncratic genius of Alan Gibson, whom he befriended in the writer’s later ......
