This book isn't bad, but at the same time it isn't a classic. The book deviates from your usual cricket book as Hughes was never a Test player and by his own admission was a journeyman player.
The interest in the book lies in the very fact that Hughes was not a superstar and his description of what life was like for the ordinary country pro. I suppose I found the book really interesting as I am from Ireland and I have always been interested in cricket.
Hughes story is unremarkable as you would expect, however I think that the book falls down on the fact that it is all about match and there aren't as much ancedotes as you would expect. You don't expect any tales of how Hughes bowled Viv Richards for a duck in a tour mtach but I was thinking that there would be more stories of incdents on the county circuit during his career
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