Spirit of Cricket: reflections on play and life
Mike Brearley is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex and England. He captained the international side in thirty one of his thirty nine Test matches, winning seventeen and losing only four. He was the President of the MCC in 2007– 08.
He is now a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, motivational speaker and part-time cricket journalist for The Times. He was appointed an OBE in 1978. He published The Art of Captaincy in 1985; On Form in 2001, and Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life in 2021.
Peter Stanford wrote of Spirit of Cricket: ‘[He] is a thoughtful, engaging and eclectic thinker… There is something intrinsically fair-minded about Mike Brearley, open to exploring ideas wherever they come from, seeking out common ground, but at the same time anxious to avoid giving offence by reaching too-easy conclusions. That is the process that is at play in the pages of Spirit of Cricket.
This is no ordinary sporting hero’s memoir, though it does include plenty of stories from his glory days.
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