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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

In How Not to be a Cricketer, former England international and TV personality Phil Tufnell highlights the many potential pitfalls of a professional cricket career, and provides a hilarious insight into how to avoid them and what happens when, like him, you don't.

I was the model cricketer – if anyone wanted to know how not to be one. My career included more ups and downs than the big dipper at Margate and more bumps than the dodgems next door. And yet somehow I climbed off the ride unblemished. I survived to walk away on my own terms. For someone who never quite fitted the mould, I was actually pretty good at not being a cricketer.

In his superb new book, Phil Tufnell looks back over his life and career to provide brilliant advice and insights, often learned the hard way, from his own experiences as a cricketer. If you want to learn how to make a good first impression, maybe don’t have your hair cut in a Mohican. And when, after a drunken night on an England Under-19 tour to Barbados, the players were told ‘You cannot be caught coming in at a ridiculous hour and still be drunk in the morning’ most took his wise words on board; Tuffers vowed not to get caught.

Packed with brilliant stories and revealing anecdotes about some of the great players of his time, such as Mike Atherton, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch and Nasser Hussain, How Not to be a Cricketer is the perfect read for anyone who wants to know more about the potential pitfalls of the game, and how to avoid them.

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Simon & Schuster UK
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9 Jun. 2022
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19.8 x 2.3 x 13 cm
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1471194574
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978-1471194573
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Phil Tufnell was born in Barnet in 1966 and played cricket for Middlesex and England between 1986 and 2002, winning 42 Test caps and taking 121 wickets. Since retiring from the game, he has become a hugely popular summariser on Test Match Special, a team captain on A Question of Sport since 2008 and won I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here!.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK (9 Jun. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1471194574
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1471194573
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 2.3 x 13 cm

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Typical Tuffers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2021

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Enjoyable read. A mixture of funny and serious recollections of a sporting life well lived. Recommended for its insight into English Test Cricket.

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Enjoyable yarns

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2022

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He’s a good lad is Tuffers. The book doesn’t disappoint with numerous laugh out loud moments. How the England team could do with a spinner of his quality.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2022

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purchased as a gift. told how funny and witty it is. husband really enjoyed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2022

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Brilliant book by a man who doesn't. take himself too seriously. He'd be unstoppable this day and age not playing county cricket like they did in 80s and90s.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2022

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A very amusing read and comical insight into cricket!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2022

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Couldn't find in the stores..great result

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An imaginative and entertaining read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2022

An entertaining read without question…. but at times you do wonder what is fact and what is fiction in Phil Tufnell’s memory box! Occasionally it felt like I was reading an excerpt of Mr Bean’s latest misdemeanours as, for example, he describes with vivid imagery grabbing a toddler’s bike with stabilisers and cycling hell for leather in a frantic dash to get back from a naughty stopover to the team hotel in time for breakfast. There’s lots of humorous moments throughout eg the tea lady accidentally upending the tea urn all over Mike Gatting… planting a four foot shark in Michael Atherton’s bed and listening outside the door waiting for the roof to fall and then himself being chased across the outfield on tour by a lizard the size of a dinosaur! As well, there’s some brilliant narrative and lots of dry humour throughout. He describes the World Cup win at Lords…” the place was jumping. All the old boys usually asleep in their Daily Telegraph crosswords were there in their eggs and bacon ties singing “ Sweet Caroline”….etc

But there are serious moments too as he describes his frustration with how cricket needed to change from its old fashioned ways of thinking and his difficult relationships with Ray Illingworth, Graham Gooch and just about every umpire except Dickie Bird. It is however refreshing to read a book by an ex cricketer who never takes himself particularly seriously and looking back at the times when he’s done so is, in part, willing to own up to his own folly and stupidity which landed him in hot water. I drop a star because the language is a bit too fruity at times but that is the nature of Tuffers!

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