Ricky Ellcock - Balls to Fly : - an Autobiography - Hardback

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The Author Name is Ricky Ellcock
The Title is Balls to Fly : Ricky Ellcock - an Autobiography

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With a burgeoning reputation as one of the fastest bowlers in the land, Ellcocka€s hopes of playing Test cricket for England were cruelly thwarted by injury. Plunged into depression and forced to pursue another career, a childhood interest in aviation was to be his salvation. Ellcock relocated to the USA and qualified as a commercial airline pilot, becoming the first black captain with Virgin Atlantic. Ellcocka€s autobiography is unsparing and hard-hitting, revealing as it does a lifetime spent overcoming biases, prejudices and racism, not to mention being saved from death by receiving four life-saving brain operations in the space of eight weeks. Balls to Fly charts one mana€s extraordinary story of determination, endeavour and resilience. The book is a fascinating journey through the ups and downs of Ellcocka€s singular story, describing howa€¢ He used to be driven to school by the Prime Minister of Barbadosa€¢ He rapidly went from bowling a cricket ball to his friends to earning a scholarship at one the UKa€s most prestigious public schools at just 15 years of agea€¢ The reaction of county team-mates when he turned up to make his first-class cricket debut whilst wearing school uniforma€¢ The cruellest of luck with injury sabotaged his hopes of playing Test cricket for Englanda€¢ The dedication involved in retraining as an airline pilot and the pride in becoming Virgin Atlantica€s first black captain, as well as being in US airspace just before the 9/11 terrorist attacksa€¢ How he was saved from death by four brain operations within eight weeksa€¢ Biases, prejudices and racism, Ellcock is often excoriating and unflinchingly honest

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