? COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES FROM
2013-2017
? AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CRICKET - THE GREATEST GAME OF
ALL
Gideon Haigh has trained an unblinking eye on cricket for nearly thirty
years.
An Eye on Cricket selects the best of his work since 2013, a period of
unprecedented change in the summer game in Australia and overseas,
encompassing the recapture and loss of the Ashes, the triumph of the
World Cup, the rise of the Big Bash League, the tragedy of Phillip Hughes,
the eclipse of Michael Clarke, and the passing of former greats from Richie
Benaud to Max Walker.
The result is a vivid, often exciting, regularly amusing and sometimes
alarming panorama, incorporating the future of Test cricket in a Twenty20
era, of Australia in an Indianised game, of fun in a professional world, and
the scourges of fi xing and doping - an essential guide to the greatest game
of all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in London, raised in Geelong, resident in Melbourne, Gideon Haigh has
been a journalist since 1984, contributed to more than 100 newspapers and
magazines, written thirty-two books and edited seven others. He has been a
regular panellist on the ABC’s Offsiders since 2005, and will be reporting the
2017-18 Ashes for The Australian and The Times.
