Books like John Wright's Indian Summers

John wright's account about his coaching years with the Indian cricket team. That was the time we had a great batting line-up and India kind of became a formidable team under his coaching. It is a shame that he packed all his musings about coaching as a job to the last chapter - roughly the last 25 pages. That is the best part of the book. The rest of the book is an account of what happened during that time with anecdotes here and there but there was nothing deep. No great analysis of our batting line-up or any behind-the-scenes account of how the team prepared to face the Aussies or Pakis or how they tactically got a prolific batsman of the opponent team out...that kind of insider stuff. It was more like "we were in a difficult situation and Dravid and Laxman got us out with a terrific partnership. Dravid scored 140 and Laxman 85" kind of stuff. The popular opinion during his tenure about John Wright was that he is a softy. Though here he argues why it is not that way, I still cannot shake the feeling that he was a soft coach. But I liked the book, the tone of the writing, the subtle humour and for a few other things. It wasn't boring. Recommended for cricket lovers. Actual rating: 3.5 stars.