Controversially yours an autobiography on rosary
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Review: Controversially Yours
Oct 01, 2011 12:43 PM IST
Reading passages from Shoaib Akhtar's autobiography Controversially Yours, you find yourself smiling at the cheesy, boyish lines the book is littered with, writes Mondy Thapar.
That the story of one of the most exciting cricketers of our time won't be written in a style that Neville Cardus would have approved is a given.
Controversially yours an autobiography on rosary
Reading passages from Shoaib Akhtar's autobiography Controversially Yours, you find yourself smiling at the cheesy, boyish lines the book is littered with. (A caption with a photo of Akhtar in mid-delivery goes: "If I hadn't been born a human being, I would have been an eagle, of this I am sure.")
Apart from an insider's view of a great bowler, he also tells us of the rot in the Pakistani cricketing system.
The wild-eyed boyishness adds to the general charm when he 'writes': "Our seniors set the example of going out, having a good time - girls were always coming and going out of their rooms ... Bu