Crickileaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries

by Alan Tyers, Beach .

Cricket's greatest legends. Sport's fiercest rivalry. Wisden's fakest diaries.CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players' balcony and imagines 40 cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated book covers they might have inspired. Featuring spoof journal entries drawn from throughout Ashes history, CrickiLeaks reveals for the first time the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers of the last 129 years. And Mitchell Johnson. CrickiLeaks includes imagined diaries from players on the most recent tour (Andrew Strauss, Ricky Ponting), diaries from the all-time greats (Shane Warne, Freddie Flintoff, Sir Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Donald Bradman, W.G. Grace), as well as contributions from less obvious personalities.An irreverent and entertaining collection of Ashes diaries, CrickiLeaks finally lays to rest some of cricket's greatest What exactly was going through Gatting's mind as he faced the ball of the century- Why did Ricky Ponting lose his rag with Ronald McDonald- What really went on between Douglas Jardine and Daphne the Koala in Adelaide ZooA riotous and uniquely scurrilous addition to any cricket-lover's library.

126 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2011

Reviews

[Michael Spring · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually,you have to be fairly seriously into cricket to like this book, and cricket, as any American will tell you, is a game that "takes about two weeks". But the crowning glory here makes it all worthwhile, and I'm talking of course about the never before revealed exchanges between Geoff Boycott and Bob Dylan. Still has me laughing just thinking about it...

[Venky · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lively spoof on some imaginary musings ascribed to some famous Ashes protagonists over many years and also other eminent non-cricketing personalities. The ones on Ian Botham's son Liam Botham and C.B.Fry are downright hilarious.

[Ashwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of cricinfo page 2 articles. Extremely funny in parts (WG Grace and CB Fry come to mind), soporific elsewhere. A light, easy read. But not as satisfying as it could be.