Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2008 - Sports & Recreation - 260 pages
Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don'; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.
 

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Contents

Confessions of a Cricket Tragic
3
Alive and Kicking
7
The Heat of the Moment
11
Save Our Soil
13
Big Scores Little Scores
16
The Australian
19
Baggy Green Dreaming
21
The Peak of the Cap?
35
Tactic Technique and Technology
137
One Leg Good Two Legs Bad
139
Fabian Batsmanship
145
? and the Mysterians
152
Variety Show
159
Too Good to Be True?
166
The Games Afoot
169
One Step Forward Two Back
174

Life during Waugh Time
40
Mix Well
44
LifeBut Not as We Know It
47
The Dustbin of History
50
Marriage of Inconvenience
53
That Seventies Show
57
Animal Spirits
62
The Biter Bit
67
Monkey Business
70
Indian Chief
74
Bradman Unlimited
79
This Is the ABC
81
The Old Testament
85
A Biography The Right Stuff
88
A Tactic of Its Time
91
The Serious Australian
96
Dead Don
121
The Gold Standard
125
From Sir Donald to Sir Beefy
132
Progress and Its Discontents
179
All Fall Down
184
The Unipolar World
188
Reading the Game
193
Larynx of State
195
Welcome to the House of Fun
207
The Continuing Crisis
221
The World of Twenty to Nine
224
To Sir with Thanks
230
Hello and Goodbye
234
Through the Covers
237
Stranger than Fiction
241
The Game Behind the Game Ray of Light
244
Behind Closed Doors
246
Odd Men Out
248
The Long Stop
253
Through the Looking Glass
257
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Inside Out: Writings On Australian Cricket Culture
Gideon Haigh
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About the author (2008)

Gideon Haigh is an Australian journalist and writer, born in 1965. He was educated at Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. He has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines in his thirty years as a journalist. He has written thirty books and edited seven others. His book, On Warne, won the British Sports Book Awards Best Cricket Book of the Year Award, the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award, the Jack Pollard Trophy, and the Waverley Library Nib Award. The Office won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Other recent titles include Uncertain Corridors: Writings on Modern Cricket, End of the Road?, and The Deserted Newsroom. He was the winner of the 2016 Ned Kelly Awards best true crime award for Certain Admissions.

Bibliographic information

TitleInside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture
AuthorGideon Haigh
PublisherMelbourne Univ. Publishing, 2008
ISBN0522855539, 9780522855531
Length260 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Cricket
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