One of Australia's greatest batsmen and the former captain of Middlesex and Somerset, now fast gaining a reputation as a commentator on the game, reflects in his years in cricket.

Justin Langer is not just the greatest Australian first-class runscorer in cricketing history - he overtook Don Bradman in 2009 - but someone who writes and talks about the game with great insight, experience and wit. In this much-praised account, Langer looks bast on the mateship, locker-room antics and on-field triumphs which made up his Australian test career and his Somerset captaincy.

He writes with great humour and candour of his cricketing friends, foes and heroes and his career highs and lows, encompassing everything from Test centuries and Ashes tussles to a rather unfairly matched eating competition with Mike Gatting.