{"product_id":"9780241401446","title":"The Autobiography : The Sunday Times Bestseller","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Cook, Alastair, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/05\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: England, Autobiography: sport, Memoirs, Cricket\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241401446\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \u0026amp; TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile we wait for cricket to return to our screens and stadiums, get to know England's most-loved batsman, Alastair Cook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWatch. The. Ball.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 90 mph it travels 22 yards in under half a second. You can barely see it and you've got to be swinging your bat before it's halfway towards you. Because you are in its path...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlastair Cook, one of England's most decorated players and highest test run scorer, knows what it is like to be your best under pressure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet at 33 he called time on his England career. Come with him as he relives the fraught hours on the pitch, the desperate lows and astonishing highs, the paralysing anxiety that can send the best back home and the extraordinary battle of wills with yourself, the opposing players and even those supposedly on your own side. This is cricket as you've never seen it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe view from the inside...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022585790617,"sku":"9780241401446","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780241401446_701083b9-93a7-462b-8adc-fa6686b9bfbc.jpg?v=1601402441","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780241401446","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}