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Time to Declare: My Autobiography
Hardcover
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480 pages
Published
October 1st 2009
by Hodder & Stoughton
(first published January 1st 2009)
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An interesting read, obviously much more so for fans of cricket, especially fans of English cricket, even more especially if you remember the summer of 2005 where England finally won The Ashes off Australia, when people were poking their heads into pubs as they passed to check on the score during what has been classed by many as the greatest test series of all time.
Vaughan (or his biographer?) has a relaxed style and is candid enough without being too vain or making criticisms for the sake of it ...more
Vaughan (or his biographer?) has a relaxed style and is candid enough without being too vain or making criticisms for the sake of it ...more
This is pretty standard fair in terms of sports autobiography Vaughan biskly goes through his career focusing on the event that made his name when England won The Ashes in 2005.
It contains the usual stuff about drinking and partying which personnally I find tedious (sportsmen like a drink - big deal !!) but that sort of stuff appeals to the casual reader so you have to accept it. There are some interesting insights into the nature of captaining England and Vaughans own struggles to regain form w ...more
It contains the usual stuff about drinking and partying which personnally I find tedious (sportsmen like a drink - big deal !!) but that sort of stuff appeals to the casual reader so you have to accept it. There are some interesting insights into the nature of captaining England and Vaughans own struggles to regain form w ...more
Pretty standard sporting memoir, detailing Vaughan's progression from schoolboy cricketer to England captain. The ghostwriter Mike Dickson does a good job of conveying Vaughan's own voice in the text and while simple enough and without any real controversy, there's a good insight into the internal workings of the international cricket setup in England and how the personal relationships between a few key people can make or break the national side's successes.
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Michael Paul Vaughan OBE is a retired cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England. A classically elegant right-handed batsman and occasional off-spinner, Vaughan was ranked the best batsman in the world following the 2002/3 Ashes, in which he scored 633 runs, including three centuries. Vaughan was an opening batsman and forged a successful England opening partnership with Marcus Trescothick, a
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