Ed Smith read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Having played for Kent and England, he is now Captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club. He has published two highly acclaimed books- Playing Hard Ball, a comparison of baseball and cricket, and On and Off the Field, which was named Wisden Book of the Year, 2004. He writes for many publications including The Times and Sunday Telegraph.
Recommended to anyone interested in sport, history, or simply human nature Mark Lawson, Front Row I could eat this stuff up with a spoon Nick Hornby A book that everyone with a serious interest in sport needs to read. Don't miss it -- Simon Barnes The Times A terrific book - Smith has distilled into 200 pages things that took me fifteen years of playing to work out Mike Atherton An exceptional book: lucid, thought-provoking, informative and fair. Outstanding -- Christopher Martin-Jenkins The Times