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Graham Thorpe - Rising from the Ashes (Paperback)
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Graham Thorpe - Rising from the Ashes (Paperback)
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Loot Price R290
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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 of his private life:
the impact of his bitter divorce; the suicidal depression that
afflicted him in his darkest hours; the reasons why he needed to
'save himself' by withdrawing from past England tours; the elation
of his magnificent century on his comeback Test at the Oval in
2003; and his fresh outlook in life with a new partner after
confronting his own failings and past troubles. Twelve years on
from his Test debut against Australia, Thorpe took the decision to
retire from international cricket after the disappointment of his
controversial non-selection for the Ashes 2005 tour. With updated
material on his coaching spell in Australia - where he gained
valuable insight into cricket's No 1 nation - his new-found media
role and his still-relevant views on where English cricket is
heading post-Ashes 2005, Thorpe will continue to be an important
figure in the game for years to come.
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