He has also published several books on business-related topics, such as The Battle for BHP, Asbestos House (which dilates the James Hardie asbestos controversy) and Bad Company, an examination of the CEO phenomenon. Of those on a cricketing theme, his historical works includes The Cricket War and Summer Game, his biographies The Big Ship (of Warwick Armstrong) and Mystery Spinner (of Jack Iverson), the latter pronounced The Cricket Society's "Book of the Year", short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and dubbed "a classic" by The Sunday Times anthologies of his writings Ashes 2005 and Game for Anything, as well as Many a Slip, the humorous diary of a club cricket season, and The Vincibles, his story of the South Yarra Cricket Club, of which he is life member and perennate vice-president and for whose newsletter he has written about cricket the longest. Haigh has authored 19 books and edited seven more. He wrote regularly for The Guardian during the 2006-07 Ashes series and has featured also in The Times and the Financial Times. He has since contributed to over 70 newspapers and magazines, both on business topics as well as on sport, mostly cricket. Haigh began his career as a journalist, writing on business for The Age newspaper from 1984 to 1992 and for The Australian from 1993 to 1995. He was born in London, raised in Geelong, and now lives in Melbourne.
Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is an English-born Australian journalist, who writes about sport (especially cricket) and business. One day, you might be asked what cricket in the time of Warne was like. The result is one of the finest cricket books ever written, a whole new way of looking at its subject, at sport, and at Australia. Drawing on interviews conducted with Warne over the course of a decade, and two decades of watching him play, Haigh assesses this greatest of sportsmen as cricketer, character, comrade, newsmaker and national figure – a natural in an increasingly regimented time, a simplifier in a growingly complicated world. In On Warne, he relives the era's highs, its lows, its fun and its follies. Now that the Australian cricketer who dominated airwaves and headlines for twenty years has turned full-time celebrity and media event, his sporting conquests and controversies are receding steadily into the past.īut what was it like to watch Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousand international wickets, the incarnation of Australian audacity and cheek? Our leading cricket writer, Gideon Haigh, lived and loved the Warne era, when the impossible was everyday, and the sensational every other day. The resulting masterpiece is as much about our fascination with Warnie as it is about the player himself. Gideon Haigh on Shane Warne is an irresistible pairing: 'the finest cricket writer alive' ( The Australian) on the greatest cricketer of our times.
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