'In that split second, perhaps the first sobering thoughts I have had in
months become so obvious and apparent, and when that officer returns
after having checked the cans and found cocaine I know that, from that
moment, everything is going to change.' 'Crazy' Chris Lewis played in
thirty-two Test Matches and fifty-three One-Day Internationals for
England. At one point he was regarded as one of the best all-round
cricketers the country has ever produced. However, feeling at odds with
the middle-class nature of the sport, he regularly courted controversy
off the field - and the tabloids happily lapped it up. His naming of
England players involved in a match-fixing scandal led to his early
retirement at the age of just 30. After this, he withdrew from the
limelight until, in 2008, he was arrested for importing cocaine from the
Caribbean and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.From his arrival in
England from Guyana with his parents, through his colourful cricketing
career, his arrest and subsequent trial, his time in prison and how he
finally put his life back together, here Lewis recounts his remarkable,
redemptive story.