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Boiling Point! - Rated
1976 Is brought back to life in this excellent book!
The scene is det perfectly, with a reminder of how Clive Lloyds men had really struggled in recent series against India and Australia. A 5-1 series defeat in the latter is what led to England Captain Tony Greig's infamous comment about making the West Indies grovel...
All of the five tests are detailed and the majority of the players of the time are interviewed for their recollections.
A must for any cricket lover.
Classic memories of a hot summer - Rated
I first got hooked on cricket during the summer of '76 when the West Indies toured - was it really 31 summers ago ? This book is extremely well researched and takes us through the whole series almost ball by ball and offers terrific insight into the characters and their motivations. David Steele is particularly cutting about his subsequent treatment by the England selectors after battling it out against the West Indies pace attack and the Autralians the summer before. Being discarded when averaging over 40 in tests against those attacks seems very harsh.
Viv Richards, Michael Holding and Gordon Greenidge are at their peak and under the shrewd captaincy of Clive Lloyd, England under Tony Grieg with their aging team were no match. With hindsight you wonder what the selectors were thinking when you look at some of the selections and David Tossell has many observations on this state of play. For me the most interesting test is the 5th test at the Oval where Richards made 291, Holding took 14 wickets and Amiss (on comeback) scored 203 for England. You can visualise every ball and it makes one hanker for a decent DVD release of this fascinating series. Recommended for all cricket lovers.
Awesome read - Rated
Having seen some stellar reviews of this book in various national papers, and having encountered books from this growing publisher before I thought I'd take a punt and buy a copy.
Thoroughly entertaining, excellently written and wonderfully nostalgic this is a book to return to time and again. Fun anecdotes, excellent photographs and a cast of heroes and villains; what more could you ask for?
