Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind

Author:   Mike Brearley
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
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9781408715970


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 May 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mike Brearley
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Constable
Dimensions:   Width: 12.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9781408715970


ISBN 10:   140871597
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A Masterclass . . . [A] stimulating memoir . . . It is hard to think of any other sportsman - or come to it, any other philosopher or analyst - who makes for such agreeable, such stimulating , such warm, company * Daily Telegraph *


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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 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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