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The Vincibles

The Vincibles

A Suburban Cricket Season

by Gideon Haigh
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/12/2009

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Meet Moof, Womble, Castaway, Churchyard and One Dad, a dog called Six Bits and a van known as the Bog Roll Express.
Every summer weekend, the parks of Australia turn themselves over to countless thousands of club cricket matches. One of those clubs is the Yarras.
This is the inside story of their most memorable season, told by the vice-president, chairman of selectors, newsletter editor, trivia-night quizmaster, karaoke impresario and club greyhound shareholder, Gideon Haigh.
The Vincibles is about playing for love, winning with grace, losing with humour, valuing your community, and other anachronistic notions. It features 69 ducks and 257 dropped catches.(Not that we're counting.)
The spirit of cricket isn't dead. It's just upped and moved to the suburbs.
ISBN:
9780522856958
9780522856958
Category:
Humour
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-12-2009
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
200
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x25mm
Weight:
0.19kg
Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books and edited seven others.

The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime; and Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club - nor, perhaps, wanted to.

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