The blurb says: “Mind Over Batter is a personal quest to understand how his own mind works as he undergoes therapy for the first time. What he discovered surprised even him”. This is a good hook maybe, but it has little to do with the book’s actual plot.
It isn’t a self-help book, it is isn’t an instruction manual. It does indeed touch on the mental side of sport, but in an anecdotal chatty way – rarely full on, sometimes tangentially, often not-really-at-all. It’s a “pull up a chair up and lets have a jolly chat” book, and it works very well as that.
Graeme Fowler was a good commentator on Test Match Special back in the day and, with the help of journalist John Woodhouse, has produced a very readable, well-written book on cricket. But somehow it has a whiff of being conceived to extend the Fowler franchise, after the success of Absolutely Foxed than from a burning desire to address the question it poses in any depth or detail.
But Mind Over Batter is an entertaining and thoughtful, sometimes thought-provoking book ranging across several aspects of cricket. But don’t judge this book by its cover.
Mind Over Batter by Graeme Fowler is published by Simon & Schuster
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