Cook, Alastair
The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241401446
- author:
- Cook, Alastair
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Sports & Recreation, Cricket, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Watch. The. Ball. It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you. At 90 mph it travels 22 yards in under half a second. You can barely see it and you've got to be swinging your bat before it's halfway towards you. Because you are in its path.
Alastair Cook, one of England's most decorated players and highest test run scorer, knows what it is like to be your best under pressure. In this autobiography, he relives the fraught hours on the pitch, the desperate lows and astonishing highs, the paralysing anxiety that can send the best back home and the extraordinary battle of wills with yourself, the opposing players and even those supposedly on your own side.
This is cricket as you've never seen it. The view from the inside. A fascinating and remarkably honest account of a life in sport, LONGLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AWARD.
Related Products
Related Products
Will: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Smith, Will
One: My Autobiography: The Sunday Times bestseller
Schmeichel, Peter
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller
Moore, Captain Tom
My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography
Wenger, Arsene
Taste: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Tucci, Stanley