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  • Published: 20 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780670077847
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $37.00
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Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket




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 the stories of Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Shane Warne and others.

As the game grows richer and crazier worldwide, thanks to the financial might of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the unstoppable spread of T20, this is the essential guide - sports journalism at its most informed, passionate and uncompromisingly independent.

'The skill of writer Gideon Haigh is that he makes his detours into the ignored corners of cricket as fascinating as his insights into the games biggest names and issues.' Courier Mail
Praise for On Warne
'The most gifted cricket essayist of his generation.' The Guardian
'Utterly addictive . . . this is cricket writing as art.' Australian Book Review
'Exceptional . . . engrossing'. Herald Sun
'Haigh writes as poetically as Warne bowled . . . Simply irresistible.' Ken Piesse, Universal's Summer Cricket Tour Guide 2012-13

  • Published: 20 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780670077847
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $37.00
Categories:

About the author

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game and On Warne, and he has written on subjects from abortion, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize for true crime. Haigh has appeared widely on radio and TV and lives in Melbourne.

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