Gideon Haigh

Type: Person

Name: Gideon Haigh

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Shane Warne

Michele Hewitson Interview: Gideon Haigh

Self-deprecating cricket writer is duller than dirt, if you can believe him, but he's passionate enough about the game to keep bats in every room The finest cricket writer alive is the Australian journalist Gideon Haigh, and I know he is the finest cricket ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 17 2013]

Entities: Cricket, Gideon Haigh, Shane Warne

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

'Little Master': Sachin turns 40 and still going

There have been accolades from around the world for Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian cricket superstar, who has been celebrating his 40th birthday and still shows no sign of retiring.Tendulkar holds most of the world's batting records, including most runs ... [Published ABC Radio Australia - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Sachin (India), Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Gideon Haigh, Richard Ewart

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

Cricketing genius

Haighs On Warne is not a biography of Warne, but an examination of his craft, an analysis of his career, and a survey of his phenomenon, writes S A Karthik.As far as books on cricket go, this one could not have been timed any better. After all it offers ... [Published Deccan Herald - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Gideon Haigh, Cricket, Terry Jenner, Stuart MacGill, Mike Gatting

First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 30 2013 - 1 reports

Sanath Jayasuriya

Sri Lanka cricket ban getting closer, says noted sports writer

Commenting that [t]he promotion of Sanath Jayasuriya is a dark day in Sri Lankas cricket history, following the appointment of Jayasuriya, a Government MP and close ally of Rajapaksa, to head the 5-member selection panel of the Sri Lanka cricket team, ... [Published TamilNet Newswire - Jan 30 2013]

Entities: Cricket, Sri Lanka, Sanath Jayasuriya, Gideon Haigh, Boycott

First reported Jan 27 2013 - Updated Jan 27 2013 - 1 reports

Frank Keating, sportswriter

Here are excerpts from some of the tributes to him I've seen since the announcement of his death. Matthew Engel : Sometimes a line would just whack you between the eyes, as when one of the monks at school promised to take him to watch Bradman at ... [Published normblog - Jan 27 2013]

Entities: Frank Keating, Tom Graveney, Gideon Haigh, Matthew Engel, Michael Holding

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 23 2013 - 1 reports

Nourishment of cricket

Gideon Haigh, top cricket writer and occasional contributor to normblog , has a piece in the Australian about cricket's relationship with food. It's a tasty dish. Here are just a few excerpts from it: It wasn't so much what Sir Donald Bradman ... [Published normblog - Jan 23 2013]

Entities: Cricket, Len Hutton, Shane Warne, Jack Fingleton

First reported Nov 28 2012 - Updated Nov 28 2012 - 1 reports

Cricket

Haigh on Warne

Eleven years ago (ouch) I followed the Ashes series of that summer from start to finish, going to every day of every Test. I recorded my impressions of it in Men of Waugh: Ashes 2001. This is a passage about the greatest leg-spin bowler of all time, written ... [Published normblog - Nov 28 2012]

Entities: Gideon Haigh, Ed Smith, Cricket

Quotes

...panel of the Sri Lanka cricket team, Australias most respected cricket author and journalist Gideon Haigh, said in his website that Colombo's "growing authoritarianism and hubris" will likely "buttress the case for a boycott of Sri Lankan cricket," the group Boycott Sri Lanka Campaign, headed by another well-known Australian journalist...

Sri Lanka cricket ban getting closer, says noted sports writer [Published TamilNet Newswire - Jan 30 2013]

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Michele Hewitson Interview: Gideon Haigh [Published New Zealand Herald - May 17 2013]
'Little Master': Sachin turns 40 and still going [Published ABC Radio Australia - Apr 25 2013]
Wisden finally merits the epithet ‘Cricket Bible’ [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 17 2013]
Cricketing genius [Published Deccan Herald - Apr 13 2013]
Wisden, 150 Not Out [Published Spectator - Apr 13 2013]
Can’t Bat, Can’t Bowl, Can’t Field: Is this the... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Mar 04 2013]
Sri Lanka cricket ban getting closer, says note... [Published TamilNet Newswire - Jan 30 2013]
Frank Keating, sportswriter [Published normblog - Jan 27 2013]
Nourishment of cricket [Published normblog - Jan 23 2013]
Ricky Ponting’s Recessional [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Dec 04 2012]
Exit Punter [Published normblog - Nov 30 2012]
Haigh on Warne [Published normblog - Nov 28 2012]

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Wisden finally merits the epithet ‘Cricket Bible’ [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 17 2013] The man who christened Wisden ‘The Cricket Bible’ had little religion. Wisden is an unprepossessing sight: a 1,500 page tome surrounded by a flame-yellow dust jacket covered in mud brown lettering. The book’s content often matches its artless appearance; ...
Can’t Bat, Can’t Bowl, Can’t Field: Is this the... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Mar 04 2013] Stuart Law. Darren Lehmann. Jamie Cox. Phil Jaques. Brad Hodge. Michael di Venuto. Chris Rogers. Martin Love. Tom Moody. Nine men who count as some of the unluckiest cricketers ever produced by Australia. Each of them scored more than 50 first-class ...
Frank Keating, sportswriter [Published normblog - Jan 27 2013] Here are excerpts from some of the tributes to him I've seen since the announcement of his death. Matthew Engel : Sometimes a line would just whack you between the eyes, as when one of the monks at school promised to take him to watch Bradman at ...
Nourishment of cricket [Published normblog - Jan 23 2013] Gideon Haigh, top cricket writer and occasional contributor to normblog , has a piece in the Australian about cricket's relationship with food. It's a tasty dish. Here are just a few excerpts from it: It wasn't so much what Sir Donald Bradman ...
Ricky Ponting’s Recessional [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Dec 04 2012] With the Don at three and Keith Miller inked for the all-rounder’s role at six there are only two open spots in Australia’s all-time middle order. It is a measure of Ricky Ponting’s greatness that no-one doubts he’s a sensible, worthy contender for ...