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The Green and Golden Age: Writings on Cricket
Author(s): Gideon Haigh (Author)
- Publisher: Aurum
- Publication Date: 25 April 2008
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845133382
- ISBN-13: 9781845133382
Book Description
‘The star writer of the moment and the latest in a blue-blooded lineage, reaching back to Neville Cardus through CLR James and Matthew Engel’ Wisden Cricketer Gideon Haigh’s previous collections of cricket writings, Game for Anything (978 1 84513 0787) and Silent Revolutions (978 1 84513 226 2), both published by Aurum, have concentrated primarily on historical subjects – great cricketers of the past, cricketing controversies, forgotten heroes. In this new book he concentrates on the modern game – cricket for the twenty-first century. Above all, of course, it is a game, at least at Test level, dominated by the green-and-gold wearing Australians, so Haigh includes a number of pieces on the great Australian Cricketers of our day like Shame Warne, Glen McGrath, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer – many of whom have been exciting figures on the English county scene. He also considers the precipitous and regrettable decline of the West Indies, the advent of the new Test-playing countries like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, the pyrotechnic thrills of the new Twenty20 game and the shift of gravity in the game’s finances to the subcontinent. And he ponders, from bitter experience, such eternal verities of the game as the gratuitous rudeness and xenophobia of the gatemen at the home of cricket. Gideon Haigh’s other books for Aurum include Mystery Spinner, Many a Slip, Ashes 2005 and Downed Under, as well as two Wisden anthologies Peter the Lord’s Cat and Parachutist at Fine Leg. He lives in Melbourne, Australia
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“* ‘The star writer of the moment and the latest in a blue-blooded lineage, reaching back to Neville Cardus through CLR James and Matthew Engel’ Wisden Cricketer”
About the Author
Gideon Haigh has covered all recent Ashes series in both Australia and England for The Times, the Guardian, or Wisden Cricketer, and written books about each one for Aurum. He is the author of a number of acclaimed cricket books, including Mystery Spinner, which was voted Cricket Society Book of the Year and recently chosen by The Times as one of its 50 greatest sports books of all time; The Big Ship (a biography of the Australian Test captain Warwick Armstrong); Many a Slip (a hilarious diary about his club side); two anthologies of material from Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Peter the Lord’s Cat and Parachutist at Fine Leg; and several collections of essays. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.
