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No Holding Back Michael Holding

No Holding Back von Michael Holding

No Holding Back Michael Holding


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Zusammenfassung

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding.

No Holding Back Zusammenfassung

No Holding Back: The Autobiography Michael Holding

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding.

As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen, Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname 'Whispering Death', claiming 249 Test wickets. Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989, it remains a fitting sobriquet. As a commentator and administrator, Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game: he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm and is calculated in either criticism or compliment. NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits.

Holding graphically describes his days as a player, looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston, and his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion - after only four overs! There is time, too, to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies, and unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd, Sir Viv Richards and Malcolm Marshall.

Holding does not shirk the big issues, as he discusses how the West Indies have slipped following their halcyon days, openly assesses Brian Lara and laments the hypocrisy over the state of the game in the region. The controversy surrounding the Allen Stanford $20m spectacle, the ICC's handling of the abandoned England v Pakistan match, player power, illegal bowling actions and the threat of Twenty20 to the Test game are all subjects which Holding tackles with characteristic knowledge and class.

No Holding Back Bewertungen

Full of valuable insights from this most incisive of cricket commentators, it's also a fascinating account of the life and career of one of the game's greatest exponents--CHOICE
It's more than a sportsman's biography. Holding has forthright opinions about the whole game... A thought-provoking read that will appeal to all cricket lovers--WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY

Über Michael Holding

Michael Holding was born in Jamaica in 1952 and became one of the most admired cricketers in the modern game, not only at international level but in English county cricket.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002945366
9781409121169
140912116X
No Holding Back: The Autobiography Michael Holding
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Orion Publishing Co
2011-04-14
272
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