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The Ashes 2009

The Ashes 2009

Good Enough

by Gideon Haigh
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2009

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The Ashes 2009 is the essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations.

In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-07, Australia had its revenge.


2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's longest-running rivalry, both countries in a race to rebuild in the first rematch since the end of the era of Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist and Hayden. Test cricket faced its own challenge- to demonstrate the game's potential for drama and dash over five days in an era increasingly accustomed to cricket in twenty-over instalments.

Compiled day-by-day, The Ashes 2009 captures the season's whipsawing fortunes and the story of its defining duels- Ponting v Strauss, Clarke v Flintoff, Broad and Anderson v Hilfenhaus and Siddle, ready for readers while the embers of the Ashes are still warm.
ISBN:
9780522856569
9780522856569
Category:
Cricket
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2009
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
280
Dimensions (mm):
198x134x26mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books and edited seven others.

The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime; and Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club - nor, perhaps, wanted to.

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