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Sport

Australia: Story of a Cricket Country edited by Christian Ryan

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May 2012, no. 341

Australia: Story of a Cricket Country edited by Christian Ryan

Hardie Grant Books, $89.95 hb, 400 pp

Sport

Australia: Story of a Cricket Country edited by Christian Ryan

by •
May 2012, no. 341

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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Bernard Whimpress

Bernard Whimpress is a writer, historian, and former curator of the Adelaide Oval Museum. A member of the Australian Society for Sports History, Bernard has written twenty books mainly on sport, including The Official MCC Ashes Treasures, Passport to Nowhere: Aborigines in Australian Cricket 1850–1939, The Greatest Ashes Battles and as co-author The History of Australian Cricket. He published and edited the Australian cricket journal Baggy Green from 1998 to 2010.

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