**Voted
Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**
WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010
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Golden Boy is a blistering exposé of the tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as viewed through the lens of flawed genius Kim Hughes.
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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 cricketing history. He played several innings that count as all-time classics, but it's his tearful resignation from the captaincy that is remembered.
Insecure but arrogant, abrasive but charming; in Hughes' character were the seeds of his own destruction. Yet was Hughes' fall partly due to those around him, men who are themselves legends in Australia's cricketing history? Lillee, Marsh, the Chappells, all had their agendas, all were unhappy with his selection and performance as captain - evidenced by Dennis Lillee's tendency to aim bouncers relentlessly at Hughes' head during net practice.
Hughes' arrival on the Test scene coincided with the most turbulent time Australian cricket has ever seen - first Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, then the rebel tours to South Africa. Both had dramatic effects on Hughes' career. As he traces the high points and the low, Christian Ryan sheds new and fascinating light on the cricket - and the cricketers - of the times.
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9781742374635
Subtopic
Australian & Oceanian HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Praise
- Title
- Imprint
- Dedication
- Contents
- PROLOGUE In the Nets
- Chapter 01 Let Him Stew
- Chapter 02 Rare Thing
- Chapter 03 Dead Animals Bloody Turds Old Apples Sponge Cakes
- Chapter 04 The Crumb-Eaters
- Chapter 05 Youre the Fred Astaire of Cricket
- Chapter 06 Hungry I’ve Had Twenty Malt Sandwiches
- Chapter 07 The View From the Scrapheap
- Chapter 08 Like the Biggest Neon Sign Up at Kings Cross
- Chapter 09 His Right Knee
- Chapter 10 Bacchus Is Being Absolutely Obnoxious
- Chapter 11 God Was His Nickname
- Chapter 12 Guys I’m Going Into the Trenches for You
- Chapter 13 Gentlemen Before You Go...
- Chapter 14 The Bulldozer Theory
- Chapter 15 Cape Crusader
- Chapter 16 I Just Remember the Shenanigans Up on the Tenth Floor
- EPILOGUE Old Men in a Bar
- Acknowledgements
- Statistics
- Interviews
- Bibliography
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