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The Ashes 2009

Good Enough

Gideon Haigh

The Ashes 2009 is the essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations.

Opinion

'It should serve as the last word on a fascinating struggle between the old adversaries.'
-- Paul Amy, Stonnington Leader, 10/11/09

About this Title

In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-07, Australia had its revenge.

2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's longest-running rivalry, both countries in a race to rebuild in the first rematch since the end of the era of Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist and Hayden. Test cricket faced its own challenge: to demonstrate the game's potential for drama and dash over five days in an era increasingly accustomed to cricket in twenty-over instalments.

Compiled day-by-day, The Ashes 2009 captures the season's whipsawing fortunes and the story of its defining duels: Ponting v Strauss, Clarke v Flintoff, Broad and Anderson v Hilfenhaus and Siddle, ready for readers while the embers of the Ashes are still warm.

About the Author

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for twenty-five years and a journeyman cricketer even longer. He has won the Australian Cricket Society's Literary Award five times, and the Chewy Onya Boot Award for the most not-outs in a season at South Yarra Cricket Club twice. He is the author of Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture.

978-0-522-85656-9