Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106789 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Tufnell's personal fly-on-the-wall diary of the West Indies tour recalls in full detail all the hilarious escapades and off-the-field adventures that make a cricket tour of the Caribbean such a unique experience. Tufnell relates the stories surrounding all the major personalities on tour, from the managers and players to the support staff and all the characters that enliven an overseas cricket series.

Customer Reviews

If you want to see some typo howlers, read this!!!
Book is OK, Tuffnell playing up the bad boy image a bit too much. Gives a decent insight into Carribean cricket. However, this book contains some absolutely shocking speling mitakes, which is actually quite entertaining trying to guess the word to link the sentence.

An Insight to Life on tour with England
Tuffnell gives a superb and honest insight in to life on tour in the West Indies.

I found the book very difficult to put down once I started reading it. The abandoned Test Match in Jamaica is brilliantly described by Tuffers, the mayhem in the changing room and the relief when the game is finally called off is evident in his writing.

I'd reccomend this book to any cricket supporter, it's great to know what happens behind the scenes on a cricket tour and Tuffers gives a brilliant insight in this book.

Highly reccomended

Great Insights. Poor Printing
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this vivid and entertaining book by the maverick left arm spinner. As you would expect there are some controversial moments in the book but the warmth of the man comes over vividly.

There are any number of word pictures painted within these pages and it is quite clear that Tufnell is as dedicated to cricket as he is to enjoying as much of the touring process as he can.

I would recommend the moments of Mark Ramprakash's century and the resignation of Michael Atherton as the most moving and enlightening of the book.

I can thoroughly recommend this most entartaining tour diary. However I must say that this book, unfortunately has some of the most slapdash editing and printing that I have ever seen. For that alone the book loses a mark.