‘Crazy’ Chris Lewis played in 32 Test Matches and 53 One Day Internationals for England. At one point he was regarded as one of the best all-round cricketers the country has ever produced. However, feeling at odds with the middleclass nature of the sport, he regularly courted controversy off the field. The tabloids happily lapped up Lewis’ transgressions, such as missing a Test with sunstroke, arriving late to a match due to oversleeping, as well as naming England players involved in a match-fixing scandal, something which led to his early retirement at the age of just 30. From there he became a loner, before he was arrested in 2008 for importing cocaine from the Caribbean and sentenced to 13 years in prison. In Crazy, Lewis recounts his remarkable, redemptive story, firstly as a child arriving in England from Guyana with his parents, through to his burgeoning cricketing career, international recognition, his arrest and subsequent trial, his time in prison, and how he finally put his life back together. AUTHORS: Chris Lewis is a former England cricketer whose extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book. Jed Pitman is a former journalist, commentator and radio producer. He now owns a production company that provides online highlights for county cricket clubs. SELLING POINTS: . Huge sales potential given the author’s recent release from prison and the subsequent press attention . Serial potential in national press . Author is a big name in the cricketing world, and was a genuine English cricket star
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