PublishedAllen & Unwin, October 2011 |
ISBN9781742374987 |
FormatSoftcover, 288 pages |
The incredibly forthright autobiography from Australia's most consistent cricketer, and recently anointed new vice captain, is a compelling, inspiring and surprising account of his journey from great potential to deep despair and then personal triumph.
Back in February 2002, at the age of 20, Shane Watson had been on a plane bound for South Africa with all his idols - the Waugh brothers, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. He was only among the reserve players, but was already being hailed as the best up-and-coming all-rounder in the country. Yet in the next four years he sustained so many injuries so frequently that almost everybody lost faith in him. Fast forward to March 2011. Shane is vice captain of the Australian Test and one-day teams, and has become an opening batsman of prodigious talent, a reflexive catcher at first slip and a bowler who rarely fails to take wickets.
