A Fair Field and No Favour

Gideon Haigh

The Ashes had been a one-way street for sixteen years when Australia unexpectedly met a resurgent, aggressive England coming the other way. What followed were five Tests that kept cricket lovers in both countries spellbound.

Australia’s finest cricket writer Gideon Haigh was there for every ball: A Fair Field and No Favour tells what it was like to watch the series of a lifetime.

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport and business for over twenty years. He began his career as a journalist, writing on business news for The Age newspaper from 1984 to 1992 and for The Australian from 1993 to 1995. He has since contributed to over twenty newspapers and magazines, both on business topics as well as on sport, mostly cricket. Haigh has written or edited over twenty books.