Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge: The Autobiography

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Kings Road Publishing, Nov 7, 2024 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages
THIS 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
Johnsons Revenge
Cruel Sport
India 81
Overtaking Botham
2015 Ashes Broad Spell
Life In One
Still Jimmy
Tailenders
Kohli and Cook
Injured Ashes
Lockdown
600
Covid
I Want Jimmy Back
Just Dont Call It Bazball
End of an
Back on the Bench
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright

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Jimmy Anderson is the greatest pace bowler of all time. His skill and mastery of swing bowling for England and Lancashire has pushed him to third on the list of all-time test wicket takers. In 2024 he bagged his 700th test wicket - in the history of cricket only Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan have managed more. He is also England's most capped player ever during a career that has spanned over twenty years. He is also the host of the hit podcast Tailenders, alongside Greg James and Felix White

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