Pack Your Bags, Brother

Description

Mark Alleyne was one of the most successful captains in the history of county cricket, leading the little-fancied Gloucestershire to seven trophies in six years. Now he has returned to Gloucestershire as Head Coach, the county winning a further trophy in his first year back.

Here in Pack your Bags, Brother he talks about his life and shares the story of those successes: from his formative years in Barbados and the ground-breaking Haringey Cricket College, to becoming Gloucestershire’s youngest centurion, playing alongside Courtney Walsh and Jack Russell, then leading the county in those golden years.

A deep thinker, interested in sports psychology, he reflects on his life story, the characters he has known, the nature of successful teamwork and the way the game has changed in the forty years since his county debut: the greater role of the coach and the impact of franchise cricket.

The uplifting and thought-provoking story of a special and most popular cricketer, it also includes a wealth of thoughtful reflections on fellow players, developments within the game and lessons learned from a distinguished cricketing career on and off the field.