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Christian Ryan

Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second by Christian Ryan & Lillee & Thommo by Ian Brayshaw

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January–February 2018, no. 398
Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar' by Christian Ryan and 'Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror' by Ian Brayshaw

A modern cricket photographer using digital single-lens reflex cameras and high-speed motor drives can take 5,000 photos in a day’s play. With such a surfeit of images, the quality of seeing is diminished. For most of his career from the 1970s to the 2010s, English photographer Patrick Eagar would shoot four or five rolls of film ...

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Australia: Story of a Cricket Country edited by Christian Ryan

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May 2012, no. 341
Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Australia: Story of a Cricket Country' edited by Christian Ryan

A favourite quiz question for cricket history buffs has been ‘Who is the only Nobel Prize winner to play first-class cricket?’ Answer: Samuel Beckett. A question for cricket bibliophiles now might well be ‘Which Nobel Prize winner contributed an essay to an Australian cricket book?’ Answer: J.M. Coetzee.

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