Books by Gideon Haigh

One of The Times'' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised ''World Series''. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket''s rulers fought a bitter war of nerves.A compelling account of the top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the man who became Australia''s richest, and remained so, until the day he died. It was the end of cricket as we knew it ΓÇô and the beginning of cricket as we know it.Gideon Haigh has published over thirty books, over twenty of them about cricket. This edition of The Cricket War, Gideon Haigh''s first book about cricket originally published in 1993, has been updated with new photographs and a new introduction by the author.

The brilliant new book from acclaimed writer Gideon Haigh about Australia's iconic cricketer Victor Trumper

Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force.

Australia's greatest cricketer by one of the world's most celebrated cricket journalists

Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don'; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.