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Loading ...The paragraphs quoted are from True Colours. Looks like The Times are just serialising it to fill some space given it was released here a few months ago.
When Gilchrist hated cricket
By Will last year, mid-July Add your comment below
The Times seem to be serialising an Adam Gilchrist book. His autobiography, True Colours, came out some time ago so I’m not sure whether this is a gap-filler on their part, or if Gilchrist has another one published. Either way, it’s an entertaining piece.
It was almost automatic. I’d come in, Flintoff would come on, he’d bowl around the wicket, I’d get out. I started to feel that I’d been fluking it in Test cricket for a few years and now reality was catching up. I wasn’t as good as my record suggested. The reputation I’d built over seven years in the Test team, I was undoing it all. I wanted to get out before I did it any more damage.
For 18 months since England, I’d been in a kind of mortal combat with my doubts, and it was showing. Those close to me saw how cranky I was, how dry and tired, how little I was enjoying it. Memories of the 2005 tour , which was such a nightmare both personally and professionally, were eating away at me slowly. In South Africa, in early 2006, when André Nel was getting me out with the exact same tactic as Flintoff, I’d got so sick of it that I’d written down four words, in an angry, passionate note to myself, that I would never have expected to say: “I hate this game.”
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July 14th, 2009 at 10.18 pm
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