Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way by Gideon Haigh

Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way by Gideon Haigh

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781921778940
Author: Gideon Haigh
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Slattery Media Group
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2018
Format: Softcover
Pages: 176 pages
Period: 21th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

`I'm not proud of what's happened. Y'know, it's not within the spirit of the game.' Steve Smith did not know it at Cape Town on 24 March 2018, but he was addressing his last press conference as captain of the Australian cricket team. By the next day morning, he would be swept from office by a tsunami of public indignation involving even the prime minister.

In a unique admission, Smith confessed to condoning a policy of sandpapering the cricket ball in a Test against South Africa. He, the instigator David Warner and their agent Cameron Bancroft returned home to disgrace and to lengthy bans.

The crisis plunged Australian cricket into a bout of unprecedented soul searching, with Cricket Australia yielding to demands for reviews of the cricket team and of itself to restore confidence in their `culture'.

In Crossing the Line, Gideon Haigh conducts his own cultural review - less official and far cheaper but genuinely independent. Studying the cricket team across a decade of radical change, he finds an accident waiting to happen, and a system struggling to cope with self-created challenges, on the field and in the boardroom. And he wonders: is there even any longer a spirit of the game to be within? (back cover)

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