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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh

My favourite Martyn

My favourite Martyn

No Australian batsman in his time was easier on the eye

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
The View from the Doodle Cooma Arms

The View from the Doodle Cooma Arms

Does cricket reflect life

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
A Note on Comments

A Note on Comments

Thanks to all those commenting on this blog, both those agreeing and disagreeing

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
The Difference Between Retreat and Surrender

The Difference Between Retreat and Surrender

How many times had Ken Barrington batted out time in first-class cricket before being expected to do it for England

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
England's 'good cricket' makes failure worse

England's 'good cricket' makes failure worse

England’s good cricket doesn’t redeem its failure; it makes the failure worse.

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Dogs of Warr

Dogs of Warr

It is a bad sign when a bowler’s presence reminds you of another’s absence, as Anderson’s does Simon Jones with every innocuous over

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
The Anti-Hick

The Anti-Hick

The worst thing about Michael Hussey is his nickname

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Whose line is it anyway?

Whose line is it anyway?

Leg-theory in Adelaide almost triggered a riot seventy-three years ago

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Postcards from Adelaide Oval

Postcards from Adelaide Oval

Operating instructions in the upright urinals beneath the Favell-Dansie Indoor Cricket Centre

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
South Park Conservatives

South Park Conservatives

In all, it is a ground on a scale and of a character a little more congenial to English visitors

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
A little DIY

A little DIY

For a weekend cricketer, a spectacle like Steve Harmison’s travails on the first day at Gabba is always poignant

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
What times! What habits!

What times! What habits!

Australian cricketers are abjectly inoffensive according to a questionaire which includes, among several things, the bad habits of first-class cricketers

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
It never rains...

It never rains...

Rain here was always a phantom of English, and cricketing, imagination

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Time for a Commercial Break

Time for a Commercial Break

Great concern this summer attended the arrival of the Barmy Army, whose songs, chants and general bonhomie, it was feared, would drown out Australian fans, and render Tests inhospitable – or, at least, interfere with time-honoured parochialism and

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Leading Exponents

Leading Exponents

The Ashes embodies cricket's most traditional format: five five-day Tests played in white by daylight

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
A Tale of Two Lengths

A Tale of Two Lengths

The First Test looks like being a tale of two lengths

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
One-Man Bureaucracy

One-Man Bureaucracy

Duncan Fletcher: The New Illy?

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
Australia...you're standing in it

Australia...you're standing in it

England face two challengers his summer: a team and a country

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
The Sorrows of Young Marcus

The Sorrows of Young Marcus

One of the surprising features of Marcus Trescothick’s travails is that they should have befallen so consummate a professional

25-Feb-2013•Gideon Haigh
A life on the cricket-writing treadmill

A life on the cricket-writing treadmill

Andrew Ramsey's account of his days as a cricket journalist (and why he called it a day) is a fine book, but it ought to have gone further

23-Dec-2012•Gideon Haigh
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