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. 'The most gifted cricket essayist of his generation' - Richard Williams
'The world's greatest living cricket writer' - The Guardian 'Australia's finest writer on cricket' - The Times 'The finest cricket writer alive' - The Australian 'The Bradman of cricket writing' - Sunday Telegraph Grace to Don Bradman, from Bodyline to Laker's Match, from Botham's Miracle at Headingley to the phenomena of Patrick Cummins and Ben Stokes, today's Ashes captains.įrom over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England-the world's oldest sporting rivalry-from the colonial era to the present day.
In On The Ashes, Gideon Haigh, today's pre-eminent cricket writer, has captured over a century and half of Anglo-Australian cricket, from W. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all.
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