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Behind The Shades: The Autobiography - Duncan Fletcher


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Behind The Shades: The Autobiography - Duncan Fletcher

 
Description: ISBN 1416511024 / Author: Duncan Fletcher / Genre: Biography / Publisher: Pocket / Before his resignation in April 2007, Duncan Fletcher ... more
Behind The Shades: The Autobiography - Duncan Fletcher ... had been the most successful England cricket coach of the modern era. In the glorious summer of 2005 Fletcher's management and coaching skills reached their apogee, as England regained the Ashes from Australia for the first time since 1985. Widely acclaimed as the greatest Test series in the history of the game, this five-match contest thrilled the nation with its extraordinary swings of fortune. It was a personal triumph for Fletcher, and the high point of his tenure as England coach. One of the most experienced and senior figures in the game, Fletcher now looks back over his life and career as he ponders his next step. What was it that drove him from a sporty and competitive Rhodesian farming family to the heights of international cricket? What lessons has he drawn from his successful business career in forging a winning team? Full of telling insights and frank assessments of the players and administrators he has had the pleasure and pain of working alongside, Behind the Shades is the riveting and revelatory autobiography of the man who put the pride back into the England cricket team.

Newest Review: ... a bog standard seamer that was picked to cover an injury and play Zimbabwe in their first ever tests in England. Duncan ... more

 ... didn't want him in the side because not only was he a bit of character but Fletcher knew he would skittle the Zimbabweans and so have to be selected for the next and proper test in the summer, so muddling his plans. He did indeed succeed with 7-49 and, of course, failed against the remnants of a decent West Indies team. Already at an early stage, Fletcher was looking a smart move that could move a woeful England side on with forward-thinking. His first series as boss was to be against the once great West Indians, looking...more

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Premium Review Behind The Shades: The Autobiography - Duncan Fletcher: "When you are successful you win some genuine enemies and un ... (3811 words)
by - written on 05/03/08 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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There are serious sports autobiographies and the then there are books like this, written specifically to make their money by being serialized in the broadsheets with chunky controversial chapters making good tabloid copy, the Boycott rant an example of here. Reading this there's no doubt England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher is a bitter man and for me he thinks England effectively forced him out with the antagonistic and pointless Schofield Report (the Ashes debacle Down Under autopsy), instead of the official story that the Zimbabwean took graceful retirement after a job well done. And Fletcher feels being born in Zimbabwe counted against him and reason enough ...  Read the complete review

 

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