- The incredible true story of cricket's first rock 'n' roll star
- Hardback format 240 pages
- The best sports book I have ever read. --John Richardson, BBC News 24
- he only ordinary thing about Smith is his name and he has just written an outrageous autobiography, Wasted?, which is compelling reading
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The best sports book I have ever read. --John Richardson, BBC News 24. The only ordinary thing about Smith is his name and he has just written an outrageous autobiography, Wasted?, which is compelling reading. It is shocking, maddening, scatological and - no pun intended - disjointed. It is not so much kiss and tell as kiss, have casual sex, get stoned, drunk, divorced, unemployed, homeless, penniless and tell; and it would make Dorian Gray blush. But in recent years this most dissolute of sportsmen has proved that he is also a decent human being. Smith has found redemption by using cricket to transform the lives of homeless, hopeless youngsters in Los Angeles and working for the Prince's Trust in Birmingham. --Paul Weaver, The Guardian. This book is absolutely fascinating. I don't think I'll read another book like this all year. --Eleanor Oldroyd, BBC Radio FiveLive
The only ordinary thing about Smith is his name and he has just written an outrageous autobiography, Wasted?, which is compelling reading. It is shocking, maddening, scatological and - no pun intended - disjointed. It is not so much kiss and tell as kiss, have casual sex, get stoned, drunk, divorced, unemployed, homeless, penniless and tell; and it would make Dorian Gray blush. But in recent years this most dissolute of sportsmen has proved that he is also a decent human being. Smith has found redemption by using cricket to transform the lives of homeless, hopeless youngsters in Los Angeles and working for the Prince's Trust in Birmingham. --Paul Weaver, The Guardian
This book is absolutely fascinating. I don't think I'll read another book like this all year. --Eleanor Oldroyd, BBC Radio FiveLive
