“Probably because the direction of my own life has been changed by the impact of cricket, I am intrigued by the life stories of people for whom the game has played a comparably significant role.” In Cricket Changed My Life Annie Chave throws the spotlight on a diverse medley of people, whose very variety highlights the fact that cricket can benefit anyone, that the game’s reach is not confined to players or even to fields of play.

From a Pakistani teenager left for dead by terrorists to England’s first black international cricketer, from journalists and broadcasters who have battled adversity to forge careers in cricket to a pair of Syrian refugees, and from one of England’s greatest all-rounders to the inimitable David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd, Chave writes about the lives of a dozen very different people for whom the game of cricket has been transformative.

Through wide-ranging and illuminating interviews, the author delves deep into the (often-
unpredicted) life-enhancing properties of cricket, revealing, in some cases, its power to reclaim lives lived on the brink of despair.