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Mitchell Starc

By Clive Gifford
Series: Amazing Cricket Stars
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Meet star bowler and Australian cricketing legend, Mitchell Starc, in this thrilling unofficial biography! Mitchell Starc’s love of cricket started when he was just a boy growing up in New South Wales – and it only grew, until he had become one of the most accomplished... Read More
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Meet star bowler and Australian cricketing legend, Mitchell Starc, in this thrilling unofficial biography!

Mitchell Starc’s love of cricket started when he was just a boy growing up in New South Wales – and it only grew, until he had become one of the most accomplished and respected fast-bowlers in the game.

He has thrilled crowds and sent balls rocketing past the crease all over the world, in Test, ODI and T20 international games. Follow his journey, playing for the Australian national team, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and others, enjoying incredible wins and learning from defeats.

Look out for the rest of the Amazing Cricket Stars series:

Ben Stokes

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Heather Knight

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  • Mitchell Starc
    Meet star bowler and Australian cricketing legend, Mitchell Starc, in this thrilling unofficial biography! Mitchell Starc’s love of cricket started when he was just a boy growing up in New South Wales – and it only grew, until he had become one of the most accomplished and respected fast-bowlers in the game. He has thrilled crowds and sent balls rocketing...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008608903

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Red Shed

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Carl Pearce

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 144

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Clive Gifford Series: Amazing Cricket Stars

About the Author

Clive Gifford is an award-winning writer whose first book was published at the age of seventeen. He has received commendations from PBS, the Smithsonian Museum and NAPPA and received the TES Information Book of the Year award. He has also worked as a features writer for Real Robots magazine. He has written over 80 non-fiction books including Inside Robots (Dorling Kindersley), The Kingfisher Encyclopaedia of Motorsport, How to Live on Mars, (OUP) and How the Future Began (Kingfisher).

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