Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius

Customer Reviews

Wot? No index? - By: G. L. Haggett, 13 Nov 2007
Biographies necessarily stand or falll by the inherent interest of their subjects. Sporting biographies in turn tend to veer between the hagiography & the hatchet job.

Refreshing, therefore, to see a writer prepared to take a balanced but uncompromising look at the conflict between Shane Warne the cricketer & Shane Warne the man.

The book also considers the changes in cricket during Warne's career; the role of the media & of increased TV coverage in particular are analysed with great insight, as are the attendant increasing pressures on players & the growing awareness & importance of sports psychology.

A shame, then, that a publishing house of such standing appears to place little stock by production values; the proof-reading leaves something to be desired & the absence of an index is nigh on unforgivable.

Coupled with the occasionallly clumsy expression, these factors prevent this being a five-star book. I await with interest its destiny at the William Hill Sports Book awards.

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