Via Rich Abbott of The Corridor:
David Frith’s book on cricket, depression and suicide, Silence of the Heart … makes some astute observations regarding the demands placed on modern day international cricketers.
The catalog description from Amazon.com:
Cricket has an alarming suicide rate. For 30 years, author David Frith has collected data on this sad subject. This is an account of over 100 cricketers – involving top names over 100 years – who have taken their own lives, with an explanation of factors which led to their premature deaths. Can the shocking rate of self-destruction among cricketers be reduced? Can those who run the game do something to save its participants from this dreadful fate?
Ducking Beamers: A Cricket Blog 
Sounds ghastly.
[…] in the year, I posted about Silence of the Heart, a book that examines this very subject with empirical data: Cricket has an alarming suicide rate. […]