Richard Sydenham worked as a cricket journalist for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, the Associated Press, ESPN Cricinfo, the Daily Star Sunday, Gulf News in Dubai, Bloomberg News, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. He now owns and runs a professional cricket agency, managing some of the world's elite cricketers. This is his ninth book.

"There has been such a multiplicity of cricket books across the ages that authors often struggle to find an original angle. Richard Sydenham may well have succeeded, compiling this collection of essays on a selection of 22 of the sport’s toughest characters."

Richard Sydenham worked as a cricket journalist for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, the Associated Press, ESPN Cricinfo, the Daily Star Sunday, Gulf News in Dubai, Bloomberg News, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. He now owns and runs a professional cricket agency, managing some of the world's elite cricketers. This is his ninth book.

"There has been such a multiplicity of cricket books across the ages that authors often struggle to find an original angle. Richard Sydenham may well have succeeded, compiling this collection of essays on a selection of 22 of the sport’s toughest characters."

Richard Sydenham worked as a cricket journalist for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, the Associated Press, ESPN Cricinfo, the Daily Star Sunday, Gulf News in Dubai, Bloomberg News, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. He now owns and runs a professional cricket agency, managing some of the world's elite cricketers. This is his ninth book.

"There has been such a multiplicity of cricket books across the ages that authors often struggle to find an original angle. Richard Sydenham may well have succeeded, compiling this collection of essays on a selection of 22 of the sport’s toughest characters."