Full Description
Cricket superpowers Australia and India share a unique rivalry that has produced some of the greatest - and most heated - battles the game has seen. In Indian Summers bestselling author and journalist Gideon Haigh has captured a century of fierce competition between the two nations, from Bradman versus Hazare through to Warne versus Tendulkar to Cummins versus Kohli, from 1986's unforgettable tied Test in Chennai to 2021's Indian coup in Brisbane. He relives the titanic struggles of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the World Test Championship, the ODI World Cup and the T20 World Cup, and explores the near-mystical bond of two countries divided by a common game.
From over three decades of covering cricket's greatest matches, Gideon Haigh has brought together a collection from this most glorious cricketing contest and its most infamous moments, from colonial times to the present day.
'As a cricket writer Gideon Haigh has few peers, past or present . . . a class act.' Sydney Morning Herald
'The Bradman of cricket writing' Sunday Telegraph
'The finest cricket writer alive' The Australian
'Australia's finest writer on cricket' The Times
'The world's greatest living cricket writer' The Guardian
Contents
Introduction
NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER
PIONEER DAYS: Frank Tarrant's 1935-36 Australians
THIS LITTLE SUCCESS OF MINE: Bradman and Hazare
BENAUD'S MISSION: Australian Tours of India 1956-57 and 1959-60
X VERSUS XIII: Australians in India 1964
A LOT OF HARD YAKKA: Australia in India 1969-70
THE TIE THAT BINDS
LEFT-ARM HETERODOX: Bishan Bedi
HAND OF FATE: Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
THE LITTLE MASTER(S): Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath
FIRST ACTION HERO: Kapil Dev
IN EXTREMIS: Mohinder Amarnath
A MAN APART: Dilip Doshi
THEIR FINEST HOUR: The Second Tied Test
THE LITTLE MASTER ARRIVES: Tendulkar in Perth 1992
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
A CRICKET ODYSSEY: Kolkata Test 2001
RETURN TO EDEN: Kolkata Recalled
FROM A LADDER TO A SNAKE: Adelaide Test 2003, Day 5
VIRU STAKES HIS CLAIM: Melbourne Test 2003, Day 1
SLO-MO REPLAY: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2004
THE BITER BIT: Sydney Test 2008
MONKEY BUSINESS: Sydney Test 2008
TWENTY YEARS OF MASTERY: Sachin Tendulkar
TEST OF TIME: Sachin Tendulkar v Ricky Ponting
LONG SHADOWS: Sachin Tendulkar and Donald Bradman
HALF CENTURION: Sachin Tendulkar at fifty
PONTING STRIKES BACK: Sydney Test 2012, Day 3
THE COMING OF KOHLI: Adelaide Test 2012, Day 4
WALKOVER: Australia v India 2011-12
OVER THE WALL: Rahul Dravid
CULTURE VULTURES: Mohali Test 2013
BROWNWASH: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2013
THE LONGEST DECADE
HELL FOR LEATHER: First Test, Adelaide 2014, Day 1
CLARKE FIGHTS ON: First Test, Adelaide 2014, Day 2
I GET KNOCKED DOWN . . .: First Test, Adelaide 2014, Day 3
JOHNSON STRIKES AGAIN: Brisbane Test 2014
RAHANE'S ROMP: Melbourne Test 2014, Day 3
DHONI DEPARTS, KOHLI ARRIVES: Melbourne Test 2014, Day 5
NO WAITING: Pune Test 2017, Day 1
EARLY WARNEING SIGNS: Pune Test 2017, Day 2
MISSION POSSIBLE: Pune Test 2017, Day 3
COUP D'ÉTAT: Pune Test 2017
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Bangalore Test 2017
INDIA OUTPACES AUSTRALIA: Adelaide Test 2018, Day 5
GOOD TO BE KING: Perth Test 2018, Day 2
FACE OFF: Perth Test 2018, Day 4
HAZARD LIGHTS: Melbourne Test 2018, Day 3
CHE-MANIA: Sydney Test 2019, Day 1
SMITHEREENS: Sydney Test 2019, Day 2
HISTORY MAKER: Virat Kohli
VIRUSHKA: Virat Kohli
THIRTY-SIX AND ALL THAT: Adelaide Test 2020, Day 3
RAHANE TAKES CHARGE: Melbourne Test 2020, Day 2
BOXING DAY MASSACRE: Melbourne Test 2020, Day 3
THE SIRAJ INCIDENT: Sydney Test 2021, Day 3
THE NEW WALL: Sydney Test 2021, Day 5
TO SIRAJ WITH LOVE: Sydney Test 2021
PAINE SYMPTOMS: Tim Paine
INDIA HOLDS THE LINE: Brisbane Test 2021, Day 3
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Brisbane Test 2021, Day 5
PHOTO CALL: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21
MURPHY V ROHIT: Nagpur Test 2023, Day 2
THE LAST ROUND-UP: Nagpur Test 2023, Day 3
THE WIDENING GYRE: Indore Test 2023, Day 1
ONE DAY AT HOLKAR: Indore Test 2023, Day 3
THE LOSING CYCLE: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023
CRICKET'S MODI QUESTION: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023
USMAN OF THE YEAR: Ahmedabad Test 2023, Day 1
GILL'S MARKER: Ahmedabad Test 2023, Day 3
DIET KOHLI: Ahmedabad Test 2023, Day 4
THE BATTLE OF THE SNOOZE: Ahmedabad Test 2023, Day 5
THE GREAT RIP-OFF: The ICC
GIMME HEAD: World Test Championship Final 2023
XI VERSUS XI: World Cup Final 2023
ROHIT'S REVENGE: T20 World Cup 2024, Super 8s
FIVE OF THE BEST: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25
