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<p><P><i>Testing Times</i>&#160;is the 2009 Ashes-winning captain&#8217;s personal account of a remarkable two-year period in world cricket. When Strauss went out for his second innings in the Napier Test of March 2008, everyone thought&#151;including the man himself&#151;he was one false stroke from the end of his England career. With extracts from his diary Strauss gives a unique insight into the torment which many Test cricketers go through. Taking the reader behind the scenes, Strauss describes his momentous experiences, such as Kevin Pietersen&#8217;s captaincy, the dramatic events of the Stanford Twenty20 series, the shocking terrorist attack in Mumbai, his feat of becoming the first England batsman to hit two centuries in a Test in Asia, his sudden appointment as England captain, and his team being dismissed for 51 in his first Test. Both revealing and forthright, <i>Testing Times </i>captures all the excitement of the 2009 Ashes triumph in which his magnificent batting and calm leadership played such a role&#58; the agonizing last day at Cardiff, England&#8217;s first Ashes victory at Lord&#8217;s for 75 years, the horrors of Headingley, and finally the joy at the Oval of r

Author

Andrew Strauss, with Scyld Berry

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd : [distributor] Bookpoint

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780340840702

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Memoir