The Green and Golden Age

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By Gideon Haigh

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Further Details

• Published: 25th Apr 2008
• ISBN: 1845133382
• Pages: 336
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From the Publisher:

Gideon Haigh's two previous collections of cricket writings, "Game for Anything" and "Silent Revolutions", have concentrated primarily on historical subjects - great cricketers of the past, cricketing controversies, forgotten heroes.In this new book he concentrates on the modern game - cricket for the twenty-first century. Above all, of course, it is a game, at least at Test level, dominated by the green-and-gold-wearing Australians, so Haigh includes a number of pieces on the great Australian cricketers of our day like Shane Warne, Glen McGrath, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer - many of whom have been exciting figures on the English county scene.He also considers the precipitous and regrettable decline of the West Indies, the advent of new Test-playing countries like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, the pyrotechnic thrills of the new Twenty20 game, and the shift of gravity in the game's finances to the subcontinent.