Crazy: My Road to Redemption

by Chris Lewis

Overview

‘In that split second, perhaps the first sobering thoughts I have had in months become so obvious and apparent, and when that officer returns after having checked the cans and found cocaine I know that, from that moment, everything is going to change.’ ‘Crazy’ Chris Lewis played in thirty-two Test Matches and fifty-three One-Day Internationals for England. At one point he was regarded as one of the best all-round cricketers the country has ever produced. However, feeling at odds with the middle-class nature of the sport, he regularly courted controversy off the field – and the tabloids happily lapped it up. His naming of England players involved in a match-fixing scandal led to his early retirement at the age of just 30. After this, he withdrew from the limelight until, in 2008, he was arrested for importing cocaine from the Caribbean and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.From his arrival in England from Guyana with his parents, through his colourful cricketing career, his arrest and subsequent trial, his time in prison and how he finally put his life back together, here Lewis recounts his remarkable, redemptive story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750986953
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	07/23/2018
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

CHRIS LEWIS, former England cricketer, now spends his time coaching children at Harrow Town Cricket Club, playing cricket with Lashings, which takes his beloved sport to cricket clubs up and down the country, and sharing his amazing story. In ‘An Evening with Chris Lewis’, the audience get close and Chris throws it open to the floor, showing his willingness to engage with his past, and his hope of making a difference.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 6

1 The Arrest 7

2 Remand 11

3 The Young and Innocent Chris Lewis 19

4 My Developing Career as a Boy in England 34

5 The Rise and Rise 52

6 The 1992 World Cup and a New Career 87

7 On the Up and Then Down Again 109

8 The Downward Spiral 133

9 Spot-Fixing and the Stitch-Up 143

10 The Wilderness Years 154

11 Guilty 162

12 The Beginning of the End 173

13 Release 180

14 The World of Now - 2016/2017 186

15 So, Who is the Real Chris Lewis? 190

16 Who is the Real Chris Lewis? Part 2 -The View of the Ghostwriter 196

Index 207