Spirit of Cricket by Mike Brearley

Spirit of Cricket by Mike Brearley

Ex-England cricket captain Mike Brearley examines the 'Spirit of Cricket' and how the notion of a 'good spirit' can be applied more broadly than simply in cricket or sport.

[Brearley is] a thoughtful, engaging and eclectic thinker. . There is something intrinsically fair-minded about Mike Brearley, open to exploring ideas wherever they come from, seeking out common ground, but at the same time anxious to avoid giving offence by reaching too-easy conclusions. That is the process that is at play in the pages of Spirit of Cricket.
This is no ordinary sporting hero's memoir, though it does include plenty of stories from his glory days

-- Peter Stanford * The Tablet *

Mike Brearley is a thoughtful and meticulous author. He regularly displayed similar traits when captaining England (he did so on 31 occasions, losing only four Tests) and he applies them again in Spirit of Cricket, a book he was born to
write. Brearley is an intelligent guide, well-qualified to lead readers through cricket's occasionally byzantine moral maze

* Birmingham Post *
One of my favourites of 2020 . . . a generous book -- Jon Hotten * Wisden Cricket Monthly *

Time after time, Brearley takes familiar cricketing dilemmas - balltampering, Mankading, sledging, etc. - and with elegant prose and courteous intelligence sheds fresh light on them, including areas on which he has changed his mind over time.
This delightful book would make a great gift for any cricket-lover who also has a brain, or even a soul.

* Church Times *

Mike Brearley OBE was educated at Cambridge, where he read classics and moral sciences, and captained the university. He played for Middlesex County Cricket Club intermittently from 1961 to 1983, captaining the side from 1971 to 1982. He first played for England in 1976 and captained the side from 1977 to 1980, winning seventeen test matches and losing only four. He was recalled to the captaincy in 1981 for the Ashes home series, leading England to one of their most famous victories. Since retiring from cricket in 1982, he trained and continues to work as a psychoanalyst, and is a lecturer on leadership and motivation. He is the author of the bestselling The Art of Captaincy, and has written on cricket and the psychology of sport for the Observer and most recently The Times. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9781472133960
ISBN 10	147213396X
Title	Spirit of Cricket
Author	Mike Brearley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2021-07-01
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Long-listed for Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2021 (UK)
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