From a Pakistani teenager left for dead by terrorists to England’s first black international cricketer,from journalists and broadcasters who have battled adversity to forge careers in cricket to a pair ofSyrian refugees, and from one of England’s greatest all-rounders to the inimitable David ‘Bumble’Lloyd, Chave writes about the lives of eleven very different people for whom the game of cricket hasbeen transformative.Through wide-ranging and illuminating interviews, the author delves deep into the (oftenunpredicted)life-enhancing properties of cricket, revealing, in some cases, its power to reclaim liveslived on the brink of despair.
