Signed copies sold out until January 2010
Mark Wagh was one of only five English batsmen to hit 1,000 runs in Division One of the County Championship in 2008, when his team Nottinghamshire reached late September just one day of good cricket from winning the title.
At the start of the year he undertook to write this diary, describing the inner journey of his season, with all its ups and downs and its constant mental challenges. As the former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming says in his foreword, reflecting on the inner struggles of a batsman's life, `Fears and anxieties are a dismissal away from dominating your every thought.' It is a fascinating book: honest, reflective, intelligent; sometimes humorous, sometimes angry and sometimes - as his team stands on the brink of two trophies - brimming with excitement.
This book is about one man and his constant quest to get the best out of himself, but it is also about much more: posing questions about motivation, `mental toughness' and `success' that are relevant to us all.
Mark Wagh reveals in this book an intelligent, enquiring mind, an originality of thought and a natural ability as a writer.His book may tell the story of one summer, but its charm and its probing questions will be with us for much longer.