by Nasser Hussain · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141003665
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«Playing With Fire: The Autobiography» is the autobiography of Nasser Hussain, published by Penguin in 2005 in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Nasser Hussain reviews his career as captain of the England cricket team: his origins, the period with Duncan Fletcher when the team gained solidity and stopped being easy to beat, doubts about his temperament, criticism of his batting position, and his stance on the match in Zimbabwe during the World Cup.
The cover shows the winner's badge of the British Sports Book Awards 2005 in the Autobiography of the Year category.
For cricket fans and sports biographies, particularly those interested in the England team and the figure of Nasser Hussain.
Nasser Hussain is an English cricket commentator and former player who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all first-class and List-A cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by Wisden as "touched by genius". He played 96 Test matches and 88 One Day International games in total. In Tests he scored 5,764 runs, and he took 67 catches, fielding predominantly in the second slip and gully.
