Standing My Ground by Matthew Hayden

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I got sick of bland shallow sportsmen books a long time ago but this one seems slightly better than average. I might pick it up before my next flight. Also lulz at this;

"The funniest line comes from the Dutch wicketkeeper Jeroen Smits at the 2003 and 2007 World Cups. "We haven't flown halfway around the world to watch you," he told Hayden. "Get a single and get Gilly on strike because you are crap."
 

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I got sick of bland shallow sportsmen books a long time ago but this one seems slightly better than average. I might pick it up before my next flight. Also lulz at this;

"The funniest line comes from the Dutch wicketkeeper Jeroen Smits at the 2003 and 2007 World Cups. "We haven't flown halfway around the world to watch you," he told Hayden. "Get a single and get Gilly on strike because you are crap."
Read that too. :D

Nope. Ghost writer Robert Craddock.
 

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read it, just your average bio book, nothing special in it, no ground breaking stuff.

Only interesting things is how his early struggles, i had sort of forgotten how many chances he had before he became a star.

Also knew he was religious but he is very religious, almost stopped reading after the first paragraph.
 

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Yes he did get dropped in the mid-90s after a particularly bad home series against the West Indies IIRC. He only really re-cemented his spot in India 2001.
 

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I actually enjoyed the book. Some good stories that I hadn't heard before. If you have to read before bed, may as well read a cricket book.

I am really looking forward to Ricky Ponting's autobiography. No doubt he will release one after he has retired.

Out of all our recently retired players, I think Ponting's would be the most interesting.

To go from a successful team, to a mediocre team, and maybe back again makes a change from the back slapping that takes place in a lot of these books.

Ponting has never really countered Peter roebuck's views towards him
The India-gate.
The issue of selection.
What he thought of players that were in his team when it appeared he didnt think they were up to it.

So many interesting issues.
 

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Well Craddock and Conn still write daily cricket articles during the summer or on tours.

How could Crash Craddock ever be impartial if he knows he has Matthew Haydens book in the pipeline or any other players book.

Conn is a shocker. Granted, I thought his work in the Waugh/Warne thing was top class. But since those days his writing has degenerated. Started with the campaign to get Waugh sacked in 2002 and has continued.

I thought he was bias against players from the subcontinent, especially Murali.
 

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would rather buy one of his cookbooks, but even that has him thanking god from the bits i have been able to glean from the internet. have been unable to confirm whether there was any product placement (may have been glenn mcgrath's cookbook that had that).
 

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I'd like to see a list of genuine cricket autobiographies.
whether true or not, i don't know, but my old man always tell's me about jeff thomson's autobiography "gardening in the nude" he reckons it definately wasn't ghost written, but you can take that for what it's worth ;)

i can't say i've ever read it, or seen 100% proof of it's existence.
 

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Good player to watch comes across as a bit of a self loving tool.
 
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So I take it this book has no useful insights or interesting revelations? Would like to have known more about Harbhajan being an obnoxious weed
 

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read it, just your average bio book, nothing special in it, no ground breaking stuff.

Only interesting things is how his early struggles, i had sort of forgotten how many chances he had before he became a star.

Also knew he was religious but he is very religious, almost stopped reading after the first paragraph.
You mean he had to wait until Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Akram retired before making a run.

Plundered pop gun attacks on flat tracks for years once the stars retired. Didn't make a run in 2005 in England when the ball seamed around.

Ripper bloke but over rated batsman.
 
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