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Captain Pat
Ron Reed
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- Book Synopsis
- No captain of the Australian Test cricket team -- and there have now been 47 of them -- has ascended to the most revered throne in Australian sport in such excruciatingly sad circumstances than the golden boy Pat Cummins. And few have been immediately confronted with such a weighty first assignment -- or so much goodwill. Australian cricket -- indeed, the game at large -- was being confronted by issues of image and culture in various ways and Cummins arrival in a position of such power and influence on and off the field of play had a lot going for it. Captain Pat: Cometh the Hour, Cummins the Man is the first book to focus on the Australian international cricketer and Captain of the Australian Test team. From his early life to his arrival as a Test cricketer at a remarkably early age, his frustrations with injury, and his arrival as the 47th Australian Test Captain, he is a player who took Australia and the cricket world by storm the moment he first donned the famous baggy green cap. Award-winning sports writer Ron Reed pays tribute to Pat Cummins and examines his scorecard: how has he played, how did he lead, how was he rated by the fans, and what is his future?
- About The Author
- Ron Reed is one of Australias most experienced and acclaimed sports journalists, whose work over more than 50 years has earned numerous awards, including Sport Australias Lifetime Achievement Award and Australian Sportswriter of the Year. Now a semi-retired freelance writer, he was twice Sports Editor of the Melbourne Herald evening paper, Editor of the old Sporting Globe, and Chief Sportswriter, columnist and feature writer for the Herald Sun, Australias biggest selling daily paper. He has worked in more than 30 countries on every continent covering most of the worlds major sports events multiple times, including nine Olympic Games, seven Commonwealth Games, several editions of cyclings Tour de France and the Giro dItalia, numerous cricket tours, major tennis and golf tournaments, world championships in athletics, swimming, road and track cycling, triathlon, hockey and rowing as well as Americas Cup sailing, horse racing and all of the football codes. He is the author of the bestselling Barty about Australian tennis champion and World No. 1 Ash Barty.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781925927993
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wilkinson Publishing, (31 October 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 324 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 155 x 20 mm
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