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The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket First Edition
Author(s): Gideon Haigh (Author)
- Publisher: Aurum Press
- Publication Date: 25 April 2002
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- ISBN-10: 1854108247
- ISBN-13: 9781854108241
Book Description
Warwick Armstrong dominated Australian cricket in the early 20th century. This is the definitive biography of a literally giant figure in the history of cricket.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A brilliant cricket writer. He has set new standards for the writing of cricket biography. — Matthew Engel, Wisden Cricket Monthly
A serious story, impressively told, impeccably presented. —
Walter Gammie, The TimesAn uncommonly exhaustive study of a cricketer. —
The EconomistHaigh’s most outstanding work thus far deserves to be in the frame as the best ever cricketing biography, high praise and well deserved. —
Robin Marlar, The CricketerNot so much a great cricket book as a great book tout court… Unflaggingly vivid and perceptive. —
Francis Wheen, Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack 2002
