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    Supercat: Clive Lloyd’s biography

    By Will last year, at the end of October, No Comments; be the first!

    Photo of the front cover of Supercat, Clive Lloyd's biography

    Supercat: the authorised biography of Clive Lloyd

    I remember bumping into Simon Lister, friend of the blog and all-round good egg, at Lord’s the summer before last. He told me he was writing Clive Lloyd’s biography…and it’s finally rolled off the printers (buy).

    Supercat is its appropriate title and, although the old mantra rings loud in my ears, I do love the front cover. Here’s a short synopsis:

    The book draws on candid and intimate conversations with Clive Lloyd, as well as interviews with many of the great names of West Indian and world cricket.

    Clive talks about growing up in the Caribbean, about slavery and race, about coming to England to play for Lancashire, about captaincy, about the changes he has witnessed in the game and about the present state of West Indian cricket. He has much to say, and it is always thoughtful and authoritative.

    Yours for a tenner.

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    Vaughan and Flintoff top best-sellers

    By Will 3 years ago, at the end of October, 16 Comments »

    “Ask any taxi driver what books they have read, and one of them will be a sporting biography and the other The Da Vinci Code,” so says someone on the BBC news just now. In it, the Beeb report on Andrew Flintoff’s and Michael Vaughan’s biographies, both of which are now topping the best-sellers in a lot of bookshops.

    An interesting phenomenon, the sporting biography. I’ve yet to read either but plan to over Christmas. Basically, the report was saying that being a good sportsman is simply no longer enough: you’ve got to be marketable. So long as the players themselves can cope with the off-field attention, and the shiny people trying to make them a buck or 3, I’ve no problem with it - especially if it increases cricket’s revenue, and cricket’s reach to the public.

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