Gideon Haighs new book covers all the great figures and major issues of cricket by collecting all his best writing about the game. There are profiles of players past and present - Bradman Ranjitsinhji Benaud and Sobers from the past Steve Waugh Shane Warne and Wasim Akram from the present. He covers the big issues in the game: sledging match-fixing Kerry Packer Zimbabwe umpiring. He writes about crickets best writers - Swanton C.L.R. James - and ponders the games most halcyon and unique aspects: slow bowling captaincy the essence of good batting. Haigh has now established himself as one of the finest writers on the game - author of one acknowledged masterpiece Mystery Spinner a comic classic Many a Slip - and one of its most most shrewd commentators who gets widely reviewed both by the cricket media and the national press. This book is likely to attract the same attention.
