1 CD: 52 minutes 40 seconds

1 CD, Mike Brearley interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 10 tracks. Track 1: [0:00-6:20] Brearley talks about his relationship with his father (Horace Brearley) and his father's career including being a teacher at City of London School, and his cricketing influences including Doug Newman, and Reg Routledge. Track 2: [0:00-2:50] Brearley talks about playing for Young Amateurs and Middlesex Second XI, and playing for the Cambridge University team, [2:50-5:21] Brearley talks about his time at St Johns College, Cambridge and playing in the MCC team that toured South Africa in 1964-1965. Track 3: [0:00-1:40] Brearley talks about advice he received from former cricketers during his career, [1:40-4:00] Brearley talks about playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club in between being at Cambridge and working in America, and being invited to captain the MCC Under-25 team to Pakistan in 1966-1967, [4:00-5:25] Brearley talks about the challenges of captaining Middlesex above more experienced players. Track 4: [0:00-5:21] Brearley talks about the resentment of others that he was paid more than them for being captain of Middlesex, and his relationship with the senior professionals at Middlesex including Fred Titmus and Philip Edmonds. Track 5: [0:00-4:31] Brearley talks about his methods of captaincy including finding out how batsman had got out in previous matches, and whether his style of captaincy was intellectual and experimental methods he employed while as captain. Track 6: [0:00-1:30] Brearley talks about Michael Vaughan's style of captaincy during the England vs. Australia Test Match at Edgbaston in 2005, [1:30-5:25] Brearley talks about playing for England and the step up from county to international cricket, and discusses his batting at Test level and his disappointment and not playing better at international cricket. Track 7: [0:00-3:41] Brearley talks about his attributes as captain, particularly his passion for tactics, and Simon Hughes' thoughts of him as captain. Track 8: [0:00-4:30] Brearley talks about playing with Ian Botham, Botham's style of captaincy, and Brearley returning as captain during the 1981 Ashes Series, [4:30-5:00] Brearley talks about retiring from international cricket. Track 9: [0:00-2:18] Brearley compares his captaincy style to Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Strauss, [2:18-4:56] Brearley talks about his stand against apartheid, the changes in the organisation of MCC since 1968, and his thoughts on the mistakes made by MCC before cancelling the South African tour of 1968-1969. Track 10: [0:00-1:10] Brearley talks about MCC's role in cricket and the World Cricket Committee chaired by Brearley, [1:10-3:00] Brearley talks about corruption in cricket, [3:00-6:16] Brearley talks about future changes he would like to see in cricket including day/night Test Matches, and to try and preserve Test cricket, and India replacing England and Australia as being the main power in cricket, [6:16-6:40] Brearley talks about MCC's influence on cricket. A back-up copy of this CD is included.

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