Cricket's Greatest Scandals - Softcover
From match-fixing, board-room punch-ups and captains in disgrace through to selection scams, insults and mob violence, cricket has long been surrounded by scandal. The so-called gentleman's game has been exposed to conspiracies and searing headlines ever since the Sydney riot of 1879 when English Captain Lord Harris was attacked with a stick. Now revelations of players on the take and illegal billion-dollar bookmaking rackets have triggered fresh storms. Ken Piesse explores the most damning incidents, names the ringleaders and bunglers and reveals the vulnerability of an age-old game steeped in tradition.
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Ken Piesse has written 17 books on cricket including The Complete Shane Warne and edited a number of cricket magazines. He appears regularly on Australian television and radio.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0140299122
- ISBN 13 9780140299120
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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