Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind

Mike Brearley

'If you go on like this, you'll do nothing but play cricket all your life.'These were the exasperated words of Mike Brearley's mother, as he once again tracked mud into the house after a long day playing outdoors. They were also an unknowing prediction, for Brearley's is a life that has always been clos...