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Invaluable resource for cricket captains and leaders
Review date: 2009-04-16 Rating: 10 out of 10
Mike Brearly who is renowned for his strategic leadership of the English cricket team shares his knowledge and experience on practices, tactics and strategy for anyone desiring to be a successful cricket captain at any level. Most lessons are equally applicable to other team based sports as well to business. The numerous cricketing incidents and stories are a feast for the cricket enthusiast as well as a great learning resource for anyone looking for a greater understanding about cricket. The insightful nature of the narrative based on empirical knowledge, the masterly handling of language and the easy, reader friendly style adds to a remarkable reading experience which I savoured.
Superb
Review date: 2008-12-18 Rating: 10 out of 10
Mike Brearley's book is a thorough insight into the pressures, challenges and pleasures of captaining a cricket team. Brearley's reputation as captain is, of course, legendary, and although he played before my time, reading this book made it clear why he was such a gifted captain. His analytical skill is phenomenal; the anecdotes he recounts of obtaining wickets with unorthodox methods are a real testimony to his skill and the obvious effect he had on team members in persuading them to follow his plans. Reading this would improve anyone's captaincy - the attitudes towards field placing, questioning so many of the conventions, how to manage bowling changes and how to react to the match situation reflect a highly professional approach. Brearley is candid about his own successes and failures, acknowledges the influence of other great captains, and provides many telling anecdotes. Well worth reading for any cricket lover.
Simply the best.
Review date: 2006-01-13 Rating: 10 out of 10
This seminal work on captaincy has never been matched. Brearley's ideas on cricket captaincy show a huge understanding of the game and of the human mind.
Overall a must for any cricketer old enough to read with a desire to captain a cricket side at whatever level.
Excellent insight into the personal qualities of captaincy
Review date: 2001-08-02 Rating: 8 out of 10
When the Art of Captaincy first came out in 1985, memories of the swashbuckling capture of the Ashes in 1981 were still vivid in many people's minds. Although this is no longer the case, Brearley's work is equally applicable to the drive for success in any field and the man-management skills required of any successful leader.
Nonetheless cricket is its prime focus, and the characters of Brearley's age such as Botham, Willis and Gower still capture the imagination as brilliant competitors and, more importantly for Brearley, as leaders of the England side. Honest in his exposition of his contemporaries' flaws as captains, the author never belittles their integrity as individuals, helping his own objective analysis to be respected on its own merits. Whilst the revised edition pays no more than token regard to the current resurgence under Hussain and Fletcher, Brearley's expert psycho-analytical approach stands the test of time.
With helpful insight into man management of players and selectors alike, as well as a detailed background to the less glamorous administrative and logistical duties of a county captain, Brearley has much to offer to captains and players at all levels of the game.
The lucid and elegant prose makes for an extremely readable and readily digestible work, and the author's beguiling modesty and understated humanity widen its accessibility beyond the ordinary fanatic for our national game.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Mike Brearley
Creators:
Sam Mendes (Foreword)
Recording label: Channel 4 Books
Manufacturer: Channel 4 Books
EAN: 9780752261843
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 790
ISBN: 0752261843
Number of pages: 285
Publication date: 2001-07-20
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)
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