Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge: The AutobiographyTHIS AUTUMN'S MUST-HAVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM CRICKET LEGEND, JIMMY ANDERSON 'Revealing and often moving' - Guardian 21 years, 188 Test Matches, 704 Test Wickets. This is Jimmy's story: an intimate, honest reflection told with his trademark humility and dry humour. From growing up in. Burnley as an outsider, isolated at school, bunking off, dreaming of being somewhere - anywhere - else, to dominating the 22 yards of the wicket as part of the deadliest England attack ever assembled. Jimmy takes us inside the dressing room, to those unforgettable moments: his debut under Nasser Hussain, facing off the Aussies with Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen's 'textgate' and that Mitchell Johnson incident. He reflects on the intense rivalries with Michael Clarke and Sachin Tendulkar and the burgeoning friendships with Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad. Delving behind the cricket, Jimmy reveals his experiences of personal loss alongside the pain of professional injury, and the strength he found from his marriage and the arrival of his two children. Finding the Edge is a front-row seat at the greatest games of the last two decades as England journey from perennial losers to world number one. But, above all, it is a coming-of-age story that reveals the real Jimmy Anderson: vulnerable, introspective, relentlessly determined, constantly evolving - a bowler unequalled, a career like no other. |
Contents
The Announcement | 3 |
Southport | 4 |
The Last Dance Day | 5 |
The Last Dance Day | 6 |
The Last Dance Day Three | 7 |
The Hill and the Ham Sandwich | |
Heroes | |
Burnley CC | |
James vs Jimmy | |
New Beginnings | |
Ruby | |
Boxing | |
Up All Night | |
Textgate | |
Captain Cook | |
Clarke and the Red Mist | |
Growth Spurt | |
Lancashire | |
One Day Debut | |
Oh Jimmy Jimmy | |
The Aussies | |
Test Debut | |
Daniella | |
Out of Sync | |
Fractured | |
Punched in the Face | |
Hurt | |
Changing of the Guard | |
Loss | |
In Control | |
Pietersen and Moores | |
Lola | |
Monty and | |
T20 World | |
Deep Breaths | |
Bricks Breaks and Breakthroughs | |
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