Graham Thorpe: Rising from the Ashes

Name: Graham Thorpe: Rising from the Ashes
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ISBN: 9780007205974

ISBN-10: 000720597X

ISBN-13: 9780007205974

Edition: 2006

Authors: Graham Thorpe, Simon Wilde

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Graham Thorpe's achievements on the cricket field contrasted wildly with his personal problems, where drink and depression combined to send him spiralling off the rails. This is his brutally honest life story, including his dramatic retirement from Test cricket, and updated to include England's 2005 Ashes win, and his new coaching career.Graham Thorpe was one of the best batsmen in world cricket for more than a decade. Yet the national press hounded him as 'English cricket's most disturbed player' for pulling out of a series of tours and turning his back on the game more than once.With painful candour and often unexpected humour, Thorpe dissects his career in cricket and the inner recesses…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 7/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 4.29" wide x 7.17" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English




Incredible Journey



Sleepwalking



Clinging to the Cliff-Face



I Don't Like Cricket, I Hate It



House of Cards



Learning From Lara



Pulling Out of Australia



No 1 Rebel



One-Night Stand



Salvation



Clearance



England Again



Resurrection



Boxing Days



Payback in the Caribbean



The Magnificent Seven



Fathers 4 Justice



Grit and Glory



Ashes ... to Ashes



Sydney, March 2006


Career in Figures


Index