Steve Smith's Men

(Paperback)

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WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 | WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY & MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TELEGRAPH CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 CRICKET WRITER'S CLUB (CWC) BOOK OF THE YEAR

He was the top Test batsman in the world, with numbers bettered only by the great Don Bradman then Australian cricket captain Steve Smith led the Australian team into a cheating scandal that stunned cricket. How did a team with such hard-edged history reach crisis point under Smith, and what happened on their tour of South Africa to cause such a failure of culture on the world stage

This is a full and frank narrative of Smiths captaincy, David Warner's influence, the dramas that beset Australian cricket, and ablow-by-blow account from Ashes high to Cape Town low, from someone who was there for every ball and every statement. Geoff Lemon writes a dramatic story thatexposes how the actions of a few young men shook the very foundations of the Australiancricket establishment.

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Geoff Lemonhas covered cricket as a writer and broadcaster since 2010, including touring with the Australian mens and womens teams since 2013, for outlets including the ABC, BBC,Wisden Almanack,TheGuardian,The Cricketer,The Saturday Paperand 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 podcastThe Final Word. Geoff Lemons bookSteve Smiths Menhas been awarded Wisden Book of the Year as well as The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year at events in London. It has been shortlisted for The Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year and the Cricket Writers Club Book of the Year and the Mark & Evette Moran NIB Literary Award. Geoff Lemons writing outside sport appears in places likeBest Australian Stories,The MonthlyandMeanjin. Hes editor of one of Australias oldest literary publications,Going Down Swinging, and formerly directed the National Young Writers Festival. His previous books were the essay collectionThe Sturgeon General Presents, collaborative novelWillow Pattern, and poetry collectionSunblind.