Top Knocks: The 20 best Australian innings in recent history

(Hardback)

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Brad Hodge was a dominant middle order batsman in a career spanning 46 matches for Australia. He recognises a special batting performance when he sees one, and he knows that what makes an innings special is beyond the numbers alone.

Top Knocks is a rare and remarkable book that provides a countdown to the 20 greatest Australian batting performances over the past 50 years, from someone so close to the action that he might as well be down the other end of the wicket. As well as revisiting, analysing and celebrating each remarkable innings, 'Hodgey' interviews the star batters to see what they think of each particular knock and, even more interestingly, what they were thinking at the time.

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Brad Hodge is one of Australian cricket's most prolific run scorers with more than 17,000 first class runs at an Average of 48.81. He is sitting fifth on Australia's all-time leading Sheffield Shield run scoring list with 10,474 runs, and finished his test career with an average of 55 and a highest score of 203 not out. After retiring from long form cricket, he had a prolific T20 career as a batter, then coach, and he is now a highly regarded commentator of cricket with Channel 7 in the Big Bash and Star Sports India in International cricket.