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Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

How Australia Came Back and England Came Unstuck, 2013-14

by Gideon Haigh
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/02/2014

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Gideon Haigh, Australia's best cricket writer, analyses and captures the drama of every day's play in the historic double Ashes series of 2013-14.


Between July 2013 and January 2014 Test cricket's original rivals, Australia and England, played out their ultimate showdown- ten Test matches, five on each side of the world. The result was a sporting epic, contests of gruelling intensity in front of packed houses from start to finish, with the Ashes prised from England's grip of more than four years as Australia turned initial disarray into outright dominance.

How did Australia go from a 0-3 failure away to a 5-0 triumph at home? Gideon Haigh saw every ball bowled - a sportswriting odyssey in itself - and Ashes to Ashes collects his firsthand reporting from both hemispheres of this unrepeatable experience.

'Consecutive Ashes series were bound to produce an epic. Such scheduling seemed conceived for Gideon Haigh, given ten Tests, plenty of vitriol and one almighty reversal of fortune to weave into his latest cricketing master work...Like watching Test cricket, reading Haigh is about enjoying the accumulation of detail along the way.' Inside Sport

'Superlative...Even with saturation coverage of the Ashes, Haigh's account remains singular and compelling.' Sunday Age

'Sportswriter Gideon Haigh saw every ball of both series and he takes us on a wonderful journey.' South Coast Register

Praise for Gideon Haigh's On Warne

'Brilliantly incisive but also affectionate . . . Packed with insight and interpretation.' Weekend Australian

'Bloody brilliant . . . Haigh cuts out the extraneous information and concentrates on the essence.' The Guardian

'Exceptional . . . engrossing.' Herald Sun
ISBN:
9780670077779
9780670077779
Category:
Cricket
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-02-2014
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
312
Dimensions (mm):
230x153x23mm
Weight:
0.42kg
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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