Many a Slip - Hardcover

Haigh, Gideon

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ISBN 10: 1854108719 ISBN 13: 9781854108715

Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd, 2002

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Every summer weekend, in every village and local park, thousands of amateur cricketers don their whites and turn out for their club. The weather may be threatening rain, the wicket treacherously green, the team composed of too many last-minute selections, but a day of fiercely contested club cricket is a timeless, indestructible tradition. Gideon Haigh is one such cricketer. As well as being the author of critically-acclaimed and award-winning cricket biographies such as Mystery Spinner he is, as readers of the Guardian know, not only a keen member of the Yarras Cricket Club in Melbourne Australia but also chairman of the selection committee for its Fourth Eleven. Now, the columns he has written have been collected to form a humorous diary of the Yarras' season, and a portrait of club cricket that weekend cricketers the world over should recognize.

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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.

Review:

'Australia's finest cricket writer' -- Frank Keating Guardian '[Haigh's] deftness is equally to the fore in these 37 short and very funny pieces following the club's fortunes during the 2001-2 season.' -- Andrew Shields Time Out 'One of the best cricket writers of his generation' -- John Gaustad The Bookseller 'Haigh is superb on the nitty gritty of the game, as he always is... There's the enchantment of surprise in nearly every piece.' -- Marcus Berkmann Wisden Cricket Monthly

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