Christian Ryan
Auteur van Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket
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Christian Ryan lives in Melbourne, writes and edits, and is a former editor of The Monthly and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia. As a boy, he watched Kim Hughes hit hundreds at the WACA Ground.
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There's some great comments by some of the lesser lights he interviewed and insights into some frankly odd behaviour by Australian cricket team members. If there was a complain to be made, it would be around Ryan's pro-Hughes stance and in particularly his claim that (during Hughes' stint in South Australia) the South Australian selectors ignored Hughes for reasons other than form. However, Hughes' average that season in Adelaide district cricket was about 18, so why the South Australian selectors could be blamed for ignoring him, I have no idea (they probably had no idea who he was). Apart from that quibble, a good read.… (meer)