Playing With Fire: The Autobiography (UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING SIGNED BY NASSER HUSSAIN)

Hussain, Nasser

ISBN 10: 0718144872 / ISBN 13: 9780718144876

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 2004

About this Item

VG/VG. First edition, third printing (same year as first printing) in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY NASSER HUSSAIN, without dedication or inscription on title-page. Illustrated with photographs. The autobiography of former English cricketer Nasser Hussain (born 1968), who captained the English cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. With Appendix, Statistical Appendix, Bibliography and Index. Light age-tanning to edges of pages; d/w has two short nicks to head and tail of spine; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of an UNCOMMON first edition, third printing SIGNED BY NASSER HUSSAIN. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. MAY INCUR ADDITIONAL COST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing With Fire: The Autobiography (UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING SIGNED BY NASSER HUSSAIN)
• Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718144872
• ISBN 13: 9780718144876
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First edition, Third Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Nasser Hussain
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Sports and Pastimes
  • History

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Synopsis

When Nasser Hussain first met Duncan Fletcher, it marked the beginning of a partnership that was to transform the English cricket team. They injected steel into the team; they gave it backbone. England became a hard team to beat - and they started to win test matches, at home and abroad. And yet Hussain, born in India to an English mother and Indian father was at first glance an unlikely choice for captain. There were, it's fair to say, doubts about his temperament. He was reckoned to be a hothead. Hussain wore his heart on his sleeve. The responsibility of captaincy kept him awake at night; he railed at critics of his hold on the No3 spot; and he took a stand in the moral morass over England's scheduled fixture in Zimbabwe during the last World Cup and he proved his doubters wrong. Nasser Hussain pulls no punches in this bestselling autobiography. It is the story of the most interesting, thoughtful and passionate cricketer of recent times, in his own words. For the first and last time. Hussain wore his heart on his railing against complacency, defying critics of his place in the batting line-up and making a principled stand at the last World Cup when the ECB seemed incapable of it. Expect passion, integrity, insight and candour in his eagerly awaited autobiography.

About the Author

Nasser Hussain resigned from the English captaincy in 2003. He lives in Essex with his family.