Sir Curtly Ambrose: Time to Talk

Very incisive read. Very good insight into a true cricketing great's journey through his career.

5 stars

Great book. I enjoyed reading it.

What a waste of an opportunity-one of the great bowlers but he is so bitter & does nothing but moan about everybody-WICB, management, opposition players, teammates, Northants etc. The guy seems obsessed by money & what he wasn't getting, to most people the amounts he is talking about especially in that era is money they can only dream of but superstars often tend to forget this or where they came from.It isn't anybodies fault he didn't become a Basketball star-if he had he likely would have had a short career & made a lot less money than he did from Cricket, if he wanted to quit so bad at all these times then nobody could have stopped him, for something he never liked Cricket made him a lot of money & opened a lot of doors post 2000 & he should show some gratitude for that. The funniest part is where he abandoned his team before the SA tour & then has the gall to complain about Clive Lloyd & others abandoning him & going to do what they were paid for, no sense of irony or hypocrisy from Ambrose. Incredibly he also tries to defend the most dangerous pitch in international Cricket history, that saw a Test abandoned in 1998 destroying any remote credibility he had left by this point in the book.My advice is buy Chris Adams book instead, a lot more in-depth, a lot less ego & a lot less bitterness, even though he likely made a fraction of the money this guy did.

A really fascinating insite into one of the all time bowling greats. From a guy who didn't even like cricket but whose incredible competiveness drove him to be the best bowler in the world. He started off in a West Indies team of legends such as Malcolm Marshall , Viv Richards and Desmond Haynes. As they retired it was left to Ambrose and his great bowling partner Courtney Walsh to keep West indies cricket at the top for another decade until the great Australian side took the number one position. Sadly since Ambrose has gone the demise of West indies cricket has been rapid but there is hope that natural talent will come through in the future and maybe great bowlers and batsmen will once again entertain world cricket.

Sir Curtly - initially thought it was a joke that he was knighted. Great writing from the quiet man of West Indian cricket who pushed the barriers of West Indian cricket as far as his potential could take it. Curtly took wickets like it was picking apples from a tree.

Great book to read

This book is a must read if you are a real cricket fan. Ups and downs do a cricketers career and life all laid out for all to read and decipher.