Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket
Writings on Modern Cricket
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2013
Summary
Five years ago, Australia’s cricket team led the world, holding the World Cup, the Ashes, and the Border-Gavaskar and Frank Worrell trophies. Today, it languishes in mid-table and cricket itself is regarded as in crisis. How did we go so wrong?
Gideon Haigh has had a front-row seat during that decline and Uncertain Corridors collects the best of his despatches, narrating the collapse of cricket’s traditional structures and the uneasy and troubled evolution of its new order, through th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670077847 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0670077844 |
| Author: | Gideon Haigh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 153mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Gideon Haigh
Historian, writer and cricket-lover Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport and business for more than 22 years. His best-known books are Mystery Spinner, The Big Ship, The Summer Game, Game for Anything and The Ashes 2005.
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books and edited seven others. The Office- A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; and Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. His latest book is Stroke of Genius- Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket.
Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club - nor, perhaps, wanted to.
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