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📚 Book: Finding The Gaps
✍️ Author: Simon Taufel
📘 Publisher: @Panmacmillan @PanMacmillanIndia @PanMacmillanAus
Book Review by @omarrasman :
In "Finding the Gaps", Simon Taufel shares life lessons from his career as an international cricket umpire.
Taufel's career is a stellar one, having been voted ICC Umpire of the Year a record five consecutive times from 2004 to 2008.
In the book - a fraction of which is an autobiography but most of which acts as a self-help book - Taufel systematically breaks down the formula for his professional mantra.
With every word and every stroke of the pen, the reader cannot help but feel impressed by Taufel's supreme professionalism and dedication to his craft. Even something as seemingly benign an activity as umpiring a cricket match is shown to be anything but. Rather, it is clear from Taufel's experiences that umpiring a cricket match on a global stage is arguably every bit a challenge as playing one.
The highlight of the book is without doubt in it's opening act. In an emotionally charged first chapter, Taufel shares the traumatic and life changing experience of being part of the 2009 Sri Lankan cricket team's entourage that came under a terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan. This chapter and the experiences felt therein is in itself worth a separate book all to it's own.
If there's any negative I have about the book, it is the fact that personal stories such as these are few and far between.
But overall, the book is solid and unpretentious and well worth a read for both sports and non-sports fans alike.
My rating: 4.5/ 5 stars ⭐️⭐⭐️⭐️🌙
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