Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge: The Autobiography

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THE MUST-HAVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM CRICKET LEGEND, JIMMY ANDERSON
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

'Revealing and often moving' - Guardian

'Brilliant, emotive' - Daily Mail

21 years, 188 Test Matches, 704 Test Wickets.

This is Jimmy's story: an intimate, honest reflection told with his trademark humility and dry humour. From growing up in. Burnley as an outsider, isolated at school, bunking off, dreaming of being somewhere - anywhere - else, to dominating the 22 yards of the wicket as part of the deadliest England attack ever assembled.

Jimmy takes us inside the dressing room, to those unforgettable moments: his debut under Nasser Hussain, facing off the Aussies with Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen's 'textgate' and that Mitchell Johnson incident. He reflects on the intense rivalries with Michael Clarke and Sachin Tendulkar and the burgeoning friendships with Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad. Delving behind the cricket, Jimmy reveals his experiences of personal loss alongside the pain of professional injury, and the strength he found from his marriage and the arrival of his two children.

Finding the Edge is a front-row seat at the greatest games of the last two decades as England journey from perennial losers to world number one. But, above all, it is a coming-of-age story that reveals the real Jimmy Anderson: vulnerable, introspective, relentlessly determined, constantly evolving - a bowler unequalled, a career like no other.

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Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport, James 'Jimmy' Anderson OBE holds the record for the most wickets taken by a fast bowler in Test cricket. In an international career spanning 21 years, and an incredible 188 Test Matches, Anderson has taken over 700 wickets.