The Art of Captaincy (ISBN0340270861) is a book written by former cricketerMike Brearley, first published in 1985 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. The book draws on his various experiences while captainingMiddlesex and later leading England to the famous Ashesvictory in 1981. Being the only cricket book which talks about and explores the various challenges a cricket team captain must surmount, it has often been referred to as a "treatise on captaincy". (Scott 2011)