On Warne

By: Gideon Haigh

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Synopsis: Who doesn't know the name Shane Warne? The Australian cricketer dominated airwaves and headlines for twenty years, and has finally become a full-time celebrity and media event, his sporting conquests and controversies receding steadily into the past. But what was it like to be there, watching Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousand international wickets, the incarnation of Australian audacity and cheek? Leading cricket writer Gideon Haigh lived the Warne era behind the scenes, when the impossible was everyday, and the sensational every other day. In On Warne, he relives the era's highs, its lows, its fun and its follies. 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 international figure - a natural in an increasingly regimented time, a simplifier in a growingly complicated world. 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. Gideon Haigh is one of the world's best-known cricket writers. He has been a journalist for almost 30 years, writing about sport and business, and has contributed to more than 100 newspapers and magazines. His cricket writings were collected in the 2011 book Sphere of Influence. He lives in Melbourne.