Product details
| Published | April 11 2025 |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-1-915237-51-4 |
| Format | Hardback, Hardback Signed, eBook |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 156 mm |
Cricket Changed My Life
Eleven Personal Journeys
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Description
“Probably because the direction of my own life has been changed by the impact of cricket, I am intrigued by the life stories of people for whom the game has played a comparably significant role.” In Cricket Changed My Life Annie Chave throws the spotlight on a diverse medley of people, whose very variety highlights the fact that cricket can benefit anyone, that the game’s reach is not confined to players or even to fields of play.
From a Pakistani teenager left for dead by terrorists to England’s first black international cricketer, from journalists and broadcasters who have battled adversity to forge careers in cricket to a pair of Syrian refugees, and from one of England’s greatest all-rounders to the inimitable David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd, Chave writes about the lives of eleven very different people for whom the game of cricket has been transformative.
Through wide-ranging and illuminating interviews, the author delves deep into the (often-unpredicted) life-enhancing properties of cricket, revealing, in some cases, its power to reclaim lives lived on the brink of despair.
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About the Author
Annie Chave has written extensively on cricket over the past seven years, for most of which she has been part of the commentary team for the independent radio station, Guerilla Cricket. For the last two summers she has been the third voice for the BBC commentary team at Somerset CCC. She is the editor of County Cricket Matters, a quarterly magazine celebrating the county game, and a regular columnist for The Cricket Paper. She is a Cricket Society committee member and, for the past two years, a judge for the Cricket Writers’ Club book of the year.
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