Book description
Warwick Armstrong was the W. G. Grace of the Antipodes. A
twenty-one-stone mountain of a man, he dominated Australian cricket
early in the twentieth century, leading the 1920-21 Test team to the
only 5-0 victory in an Ashes series; a historic feat not even Steve
Waugh has managed to repeat. A defiant, often curmudgeonly character, he
was also arguably the first cricketer of the modern age, demanding his
full financial worth, playing the game to the edge of the Laws and
sometimes beyond, and even anticipating the phenomenon of match-fixing.
When people called him the Big Ship, they meant that he was unsinkable.
Now Gideon Haigh, author of Mystery Spinner, has written the definitive
biography of Warwick Armstrong, a literally giant figure in the history
of modern cricket.
