Product Description: Book by Ricky Ponting

Product Description: Kim Hughes was one of the most majestic and daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 years. Golden curled and boyishly handsome, his rise and fall as captain and player is unparalleled in our cricketing history. He played at least three innings that count as all-time classics, but it's his tearful resignation from the captaincy that is remembered...read more

Product Description: Thommo was feared by batsmen all around the world. Sri Lankan Sunil Wettimuny recalls facing one of Thommo's balls: "Never before or since that day did I know fear on the cricket field." Mike Brearley, the Middlesex captain who led England during the World Series Cricket incursion, said of Thommo: "Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to Thomson...read more

Product Description: This is the story of Tom Wills—flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader, and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent to the strict British Rugby School in 1850 at 14, Tom returned as a worldly young man whose cricket prowess quickly captured the hearts of Melburnians...read more

Product Description: Shane Warne was the most glamorous and arguably the best cricketer in the world for more than ten years. He won a generation of fans by showing the fun to be had in bamboozling opponents. Warne loved the limelight, but the limelight also burned him: scandals involving drugs, extra-marital affairs, and taking money from dodgy bookmakers have soured relations with his family and homeland...read more

Shane Warne is a cricketing genius. He has taken a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and been the subject of endless press speculation. He was the first cricketer to reach 600 Test wickets. He has revived the art of legspin and electrified the game. This work is his biography.

One of the greatest Australian cricketers and most successful captains, Ian Chappell, now a broadcaster, looks back over his life.

Product Description: Unlike the mostly reverent literature on Australia's most popular sporting hero, this book explains how Sir Donald Bradman's iconic status was created and sustained. How does his popularity and heroism relate to Australian nationhood? Brett Hutchins' unique analysis reveals the mythical character of so many representations of "the Don," and connects them to broader social phenomena and the cultural contexts in which they were created...read more

Product Description: When Sir Donald Bradman retired from first-class cricket in 1949, he was able to look back on 21 years of brilliant success unsurpassed by any other batsman in history. Bradman The Great was first published ten years later. Now available again after an absence of nearly 40 years, this classic book is a contribution to the history and literature of the game...read more

Product Description: The story of a lifetime at the centre of international cricket from the former record-breaking captain of Australia, now a TV commentator in the game. Includes reviews, features and interviews. Benaud retired as a player in 1964 and became a TV commentator, knowing major figures in cricket for the last forty years...read more

A comprehensive guide covering every type of business and social correspondence, from job inquiries and tricky collection letters to wedding invitations and sympathy notes, includes advice on faxes and E-mail, and tips on spelling, abbreviations, and grammar. Reprint.