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Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket
Author(s): Gideon Haigh (Author)
- Publisher: Aurum Press
- Publication Date: 28 April 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845130782
- ISBN-13: 9781845130787
Book Description
Gideon Haigh’s new book covers all the great figures and major issues of cricket, by collecting all his best writing about the game. There are profiles of players past and present – Bradman, Ranjitsinhji, Benaud and Sobers from the past, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Wasim Akram from the present. He covers the big issues in the game: sledging, match-fixing, Kerry Packer, Zimbabwe, umpiring. He writes about cricket’s best writers – Swanton, C.L.R. James – and ponders the game’s most halcyon and unique aspects: slow bowling, captaincy, the essence of good batting. Haigh has now established himself as one of the finest writers on the game – author of one acknowledged masterpiece, Mystery Spinner, a comic classic, Many a Slip – and one of its most most shrewd commentators, who gets widely reviewed both by the cricket media and the national press. This book is likely to attract the same attention.
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About the Author
Gideon Haigh is the author of several acclaimed and award-winning books about cricket, including Mystery Spinner (1 85410 855 7), The Big Ship (1 85410 892 1) and Many a Slip (1 85410 871 9), all published by Aurum. He writes for the Guardian, The Times and the Wisden Cricketer.
