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Steve Smith's Men: Australian Cricket's Greatest Downfall (Wisden Book of the Year 2019, Cricket Society & MCC 2019 Book of the Year): Behind Australian Cricket's Fall

Steve Smith's Men: Australian Cricket's Greatest Downfall (Wisden Book of the Year 2019, Cricket Society & MCC 2019 Book of the Year): Behind Australian Cricket's Fall

by Geoff Lemon (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

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Synopsis

He was top of the world, with numbers bettered only by Don Bradman - then captain Steve Smith led his Australian team into a cheating scandal that stunned cricket. Media exploded and million-dollar contracts were torn up. Australia's prime minister expressed the public anger and disappointment: 'Our cricketers are role models, and cricket is synonymous with fair play.'

But there was more to the story than the actions of a few young men. A tangle of personality, politics and culture had led them to this point.

Geoff Lemon witnessed that story from commentary boxes and press conferences, and was there in South Africa for its final act. This is a frank, fearless and often humorous account of the path from Ashes high to Cape Town low, from someone who watched it all unfold.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 13 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1743795092
ISBN 13: 9781743795095

Media Reviews
'The perfect antidote to whingeing Pom syndrome: a beautifully executed forensic analysis of the Australian cricketing psyche.' * Richard Charkin, Chairman of John Wisden *
Author Bio
Geoff Lemon has covered cricket as a writer and broadcaster since 2010, including touring with the Australian men's and women's teams since 2013, for outlets including the ABC, BBC, Wisden Almanack, The Guardian, The Cricketer, The Saturday Paper and Cricinfo. He has worked on radio and television in Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean, Ireland and the UAE, and hosts cricket podcast The Final Word. His writing outside sport appears in places like Best Australian Stories, The Monthly and Meanjin. He's editor of one of Australia's oldest literary publications, Going Down Swinging, and formerly directed the National Young Writers Festival. His previous books were the essay collection The Sturgeon General Presents, collaborative novel Willow Pattern, and poetry collection Sunblind.