CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries Book

EXPOSED! CrickiLeaks lifts the lid on sport's fiercest rivalry and reveals for the first time the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers of the last 134 years. And Mitchell Johnson. It features 40 first-person diaries drawn from throughout Ashes history. Each lampoons a well-known player or cricketing figure and is presented as an imagined extract from their personal journal. The book includes diary entries from players on the most recent tour (Andrew Strauss Ricky Ponting Graeme Swann Mitchell Johnson) diaries from the all-time greats (Shane Warne Glenn McGrath Freddie Flintoff Allan Border Sir Ian Botham David Boon Geoffrey Boycott Douglas Jardine W.G. Grace) as well as contributions from less obvious personalities (such as Gemma Broad - England team video analyst and Stuart's sister - and Sir Mick Jagger - rock star and general cricket hanger-on). Highlights include: Steve Waugh (aged 13 ) on organising a school trip to a war memorial. Including an account of how he mentally disintegrated the coach driver. Mike Gatting on The Ball Of The Century. "When I got back to the dressing room I was so upset I could hardly finish the rest of my lasagnes."Mike Brearley on psychoanalyzing Jeff Thomson. "Was his desire to keep hitting me with bouncers a sublimation of a deep-seated childhood trauma?" Kevin Pietersen on Kevin Pietersen.Read More