Winner of many awards, this book by Scyld Berry is for the cricket-lover in your life. Berry wrote about the sport for 40 years and this is obvious by the emphasis on cricket as important in people's lives. Even the staunchest fan will learn something new.

Elisa, Book Grocer

The extended piece on the pressures of Ashes series on captains is beautifully painted...I think every aspiring young England cricketer should read this...not as something to be afraid of, but to enlighten and prepare for the challenges that may come his way Andy Flower When I see the quality of writing by people like Scyld Berry and David Frith, I feel daunted. I can never write as well as they can. Rahul Dravid

Scyld Berry has reported on more England Test matches than anyone, over 400 of them, including 20 Ashes series. He was born and grew up within a mile of Bramall Lane in Sheffield. He started as a cricket journalist in 1976, and has successively been the cricket correspondent of the Observer, the Sunday Correspondent, the Independent on Sunday, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph, and for four years he was the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. On the field he has taken five wickets in an innings in county cricket - for Gloucestershire Over-60s. This is his seventh book, six of them about cricket.