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Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes series by Gideon Haigh

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April 2011, no. 330

Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes series by Gideon Haigh

Viking, $29.95 pb, 285 pp

Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes series by Gideon Haigh

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April 2011, no. 330

In the early 1990s the cricket tour book, like the western movie, seemed dead and buried. The formulas played themselves out around 1970, though the genre had a strong structure which allowed for fitful new interpretations. Direct telecasts of Test cricket and video highlights of series appeared likely to kill the tour book. Who needed to read about it when, having witnessed the games ball by ball, judgement could be passed again with the aid of electronic recording equipment? Yet a Test series offered a strong structure on which a skilful author could make interesting variations.

Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes series' by Gideon Haigh

Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes series

by Gideon Haigh

Viking, $29.95 pb, 285 pp

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