Inside out : writings on cricket culture / Gideon Haigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haigh, Gideon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cricket--Australia.

Cricket.

Cricket players--Australia.

Cricket players.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2008.

Summary:

In Gideon Haigh's latest book, one of cricket's finest writers turns his subject Inside Out, examining those aspects of cricket that distinguish it from other games, from the centenary of Sir Donald Bradman and the cult of the baggy green cap to the threat and promise of the Twenty20 revolution. This is cricket not only as it is played, but as it is seen, run, commercialised, codified, promoted, politicised and also written about by others, with a detailed introduction to the distinguished literary traditions of which Gideon Haigh now forms part.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

INTRODUCTION Play for Today

1 Room at the Bottom

1 APOLOGIA Confessions of a Cricket Tragic

2 CLUB CRICKET Alive and Kicking

3 MY FAVOURITE GAME The Heat of the Moment

4 CLUB CRICKET Save Our Soil

5 PONSFORD V PENGUINS Big Scores, Little Scores

2 The Australian Way

6 THE AUSTRALIAN TEST MATCH CAP Baggy Green Dreaming

7 THE AUSTRALIAN TEST MATCH CAP The Peak of the Cap?

8 AUSTRALIANS AND TEAMWORK Life during Waugh Time

9 CRICKET AND POLITICS Mix Well

10 CRICKET AND AUSTRALIAN DEMOGRAPHY Life-But Not as We Know It

11 THE ASHES The Dustbin of History

12 THE WARNE-MURALITHARAN TROPHY Marriage of Inconvenience

13 THE PACKER REVOLUTION That Seventies Show

14 THE PACKER REVOLUTION Animal Spirits

15 HARBHAJAN V SYMONDS The Biter Bit

16 HARBHAJAN V SYMONDS Monkey Business

17 SUNIL GAVASKAR V ICC Indian Chief

3 Bradman Unlimited

18 SIR DONALD BRADMAN This Is the ABC

19 SIR DONALD BRADMAN'S FAREWELL TO CRICKET The Old Testament

20 IRVING ROSENWATER'S SIR DONALD BRADMAN: A BIOGRAPHY The Right Stuff

21 BODYLINE AT 75 A Tactic of Its Time

22 SIR DONALD BRADMAN AT 100 The Serious Australian

23 SIR DONALD BRADMAN AT 100 Dead Don

24 BRADMAN'S FAME The Gold Standard

25 CRICKET AND THE HONOURS SYSTEM From Sir Donald to Sir Beefy

4 Tactic, Technique and Technology

26 TAKING GUARD One Led, Two Legs Bad

27 THE ART OF THE LEAVE Fabian Batsmanship

28 MYSTERY BOWLERS ? and the Mysterians

29 TWENTY20'S PRECURSORS Variety Show

30 TWENTY20'S IMPACT Too Good to Be True?

31 INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE The Game's Afoot

32 CRICKET AND THE FUTURE One Step Forward, Two Back

33 CRICKET AND THE FUTURE Progress and Its Discontents

34 THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET All Fall Down

35 THE BCCI AND THE ICC The Unipolar World

5 Reading the Game.

36 ALAN MCGILVRAY Larynx of State

37 RAY ROBINSON AND ON TOP DOWN UNDER Welcome to the House of Fun

38 JACK FINGLETON'S CRICKET CRISIS The Continuing Crisis

39 RC ROBERTSON-GLASGOW'S 46 NOT OUT The World of Twenty to Nine

40 RONALD MASON'S 'OF THE LATE FREDERICK J. HYLAND' My Heart's in the Hylands

41 ALAN ROSS'S AUSTRALIA 55 To Sir, with Thanks

42 PETER ROEBUCK'S IT NEVER RAINS Hello and Goodbye

43 SUJIT MUKHERJEE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN CRICKETER Through the Covers

44 RAMACHANDRA GUHA'S A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD Stranger than Fiction

45 MARK RAY'S CRICKET: THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME Ray of Light

46 WRITING INSIDE STORY Behind Closed Doors

47 UNUSUAL EVENTS IN WISDEN Odd Men Out

48 OBITUARIES IN WISDEN The Long Stop

49 THE MYSTERIOUS WP MCELHONE Through the Looking Glass.

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ISBN:

9780522859171

0522859178

OCLC:

1496393330