Description
This is a story of eleven men, eleven mysteries, eleven chapters. Threaded together they make one story, a history of not fitting in. Some of cricket history's most fascinating what-happened-theres. Norman Dodds, kept out of the 1909 team for his "choice of a boon companion". John McGuire, scorer of 10,000 first-grade runs but never picked for his state (he was aboriginal) Scott Muller, hounded out after two Tests - remember "can't bowl can't throw" and John the cameraman.
Too old, too shy, too fat, too unmasculine, wrong religion, bent arm, this will be a deeply researched and cleverly constructed story of not fitting in. It will be hotly debated and discussed in cricketing circles here and overseas (three of the eleven will be non-Aussies) and will be a genuinely unique piece of cricket history.
Too old, too shy, too fat, too unmasculine, wrong religion, bent arm, this will be a deeply researched and cleverly constructed story of not fitting in. It will be hotly debated and discussed in cricketing circles here and overseas (three of the eleven will be non-Aussies) and will be a genuinely unique piece of cricket history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
St Leonards
Australia
Illustrations
8pp b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-74331-137-0 (9781743311370)
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Person
Christian Ryan was the founding editor of the national current affairs magazine The Monthly. He has edited Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia, Inside Edge Magazine, Wisden Cricket Monthly and has worked as a journalist with The Guardian newspaper. Arguably our best cricket writer, he is the author of Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket and, most recently Australia: Story of a Cricket Country.