Browse by category
On Form by Mike Brearley
35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling 'in the zone'? Are these states in the lap of the gods, a matter of which side of the bed we got out of that morning? Or can we do something to make its arrival more likely? Mike Brearley describes some of the elements of being on form in many fields, ...Show more
Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life by Mike Brearley
22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said 'it's not cricket', they probably would be (though less reliably than a century ago). Is there some special spirit of cricket?The laws of cricket, like the ...Show more
The Art of Captaincy: What Sport Teaches Us About Leadership by Mike Brearley
22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and, in 1981, he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia. In The Art of Captaincy, his treatise on leadership and motivation, he draws directly on his experience of man-managing a team, w ...Show more
The Spirit of Cricket by Mike Brearley
32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The laws of cricket, like the laws of the land, aim at a sort of justice or balancing between different factions. The purpose behind cricket's laws, and behind changes in them, is often to calibrate the balance in the game between batsmen and bowlers, between attack and defence, between safety and risk. ...Show more
Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind by Mike Brearley
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
'If you go on like this, you'll do nothing but play cricket all your life.'These were the exasperated words of Mike Brearley's mother, as he once again tracked mud into the house after a long day playing outdoors. They were also an unknowing prediction, for Brearley's is a life that has always been clos ...Show more
0 - 4 of 5