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Author: Steve James
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.252kg
ISBN: 9780857500861
ISBN 10: 0857500864
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 June 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The most insightful cricket book of the year -- Paul Newman Daily Mail 20120510 Excellent -- Mike Atherton The Times 20120628 An excellent book and courageous in the way it revisits and interrogates the opinions of the moment, including the author's own, in light of subsequent developments. As well as knowledge there is a rare warmth and sympathy to his portraits of men who are probably easier to respect than truly to know. The Plan is rich in unfamiliar detail and even the sideways glances are penetrating. The cricket points are well made, the personal judgements astute. Like his subjects James has made a good plan and stuck to it -- Gideon Haigh The Cricketer 20120622 Fine detail... a persuasive account of the renaissance of English cricket, and no one is better qualified to tell it. [Steve James] has become a member of an influential new British school of cricket writing The Economist 20120721 James' quiet excellence, uncomplicated style and informed perspective make his Sunday column a don't miss . The Plan is more of the same... Compelling -- Sam Collins Cricinfo 20120609
The most insightful cricket book of the year -- Paul Newman Daily Mail Excellent -- Mike Atherton The Times An excellent book and courageous in the way it revisits and interrogates the opinions of the moment, including the author's own, in light of subsequent developments. As well as knowledge there is a rare warmth and sympathy to his portraits of men who are probably easier to respect than truly to know. The Plan is rich in unfamiliar detail and even the sideways glances are penetrating. The cricket points are well made, the personal judgements astute. Like his subjects James has made a good plan and stuck to it -- Gideon Haigh The Cricketer Fine detail... a persuasive account of the renaissance of English cricket, and no one is better qualified to tell it. [Steve James] has become a member of an influential new British school of cricket writing The Economist James' quiet excellence, uncomplicated style and informed perspective make his Sunday column a don't miss . The Plan is more of the same... Compelling -- Sam Collins Cricinfo
Author Information
Steve James is cricket columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and a sports writer for the Daily Telegraph. He read Classics at Swansea University before becoming a postgraduate at Cambridge, where he won a Blue in the side captained by Mike Atherton. He played his county cricket with Glamorgan for eighteen years, scoring nearly 16,000 runs at an average of over 40, and captaining them for three seasons, winning a National League trophy in 2002, before retiring due to injury. In 1997 James helped Glamorgan to win the County Championship for the first time in nearly thirty years and was named the Professional Cricketers Association Player of the Year. He still holds the record for highest score by a Glamorgan batsman (309 not out against Sussex at Colwyn Bay in 2000) and also won two caps for England.
