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The best from a decade of the writing of Mike Atherton, the sports journalist of the year. Former England Cricket captain Mike Atherton was named the Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in March 2010. This book compiles Atherton's best writings over the last decade, to provide a revealing and insightful portrait of modern cricket and much else besides. Fully up-to-date to include a chapter on England's glorious winter Ashes series. In this fascinating book, Mike Atherton selects the best pieces he has written over the last decade. Renowned as a shrewd and resolute captain of England, Atherton moved effortlessly into the commentary box and Fleet Street, proving himself every bit as capable with the pen as with the bat. It has been a dramatic period, seeing the rise of Twenty20 cricket and the IPL, as well as the revival of England's prospects, breaking a long era of Australian dominance in the Ashes. There has also been controversy, too, with terrorist attack
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Mike Atherton, born in 1968 and educated at Cambridge University, played his entire career for Lancashire and England, winning 115 Test caps and captaining his country 54 times. After a spell writing for the Sunday Telegraph, he became Cricket Correspondent of The Times in 2008 and also commentates for Sky Sports. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two young children.
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