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Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket Pdf FREE GOLDEN BOY: KIM HUGHES AND THE BAD OLD DAYS OF AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PDF Christian Ryan | 448 pages | 01 Sep 2010 | Allen & Unwin | 9781742374635 | English | St Leonards, Australia Writing The Best Cricket Book Ever: Christian Ryan | Interview | Wisden Kim Hughes should have been a superstar. He should have averaged 50 in Test cricket. Instead he averaged It's a horribly unjust legacy, yet also strangely apposite. Hughes's career was a glorious kind of tragedy. It is one of the great cricket biographies, at once unputdownable and also unpickupable, because you pick it up you will eventually finish it, and what are you going to do then? Hughes was undeniably a genius, with the qualities of the Prom King, yet perversely these led to un popularity. Hughes was not entirely blameless, but in essence he was a thoroughly decent man whose apparent destiny to captain Australia happily ever after was compromised by factors beyond his control. His story is harder than most to distil. The main themes are the mutinous behaviour of senior players while he was Australian captain, the only partial fulfilment of his rare ability, and a horrible, grubby ending to his international career: a tearful resignation, two runs in his last four Tests, and finally a rebel tour to South Africa. In a sense Hughes was the boy who had too much talent — and also who, in the opinion of many grizzled team-mates, never stopped being a boy. There are two ways of looking at it: his detractors say he never grew up, his disciples say he was forever young. Most if not all would concur that Hughes was ultimately Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket by his ability. He never quite came to grips with its parameters, and he was subject to the same absurd mistrust of naked talent as David Gower, particularly when he succumbed to one of his many soft dismissals. The hype about his ability meant that almost every dressing room he entered were already suspicious of him. All they had been told about was this luminescent young talent; so even though Hughes had done nothing wrong, he was treated with the contempt usually reserved for the teacher's pet. One chapter in Ryan's book is called 'Dead animals, bloody turds, old apples, sponge cakes …'. They are just some of the things that were dumped in Hughes's cricket bag by senior players at his first club Subiaco. The hostility from older players was a recurring theme of Hughes's career, even when he became Australian captain. They couldn't relate to him. Hughes was a dreamer in a dressing-room full of testosterone-heavy pragmatists like Dennis Lillee, Rodney Marsh and Rodney Hogg, who once threw a punch at Hughes during a Test in West Indies. Lillee thought his mate Marsh should be captain. He was probably right. Marsh had a sharper cricket brain than Hughes and is, along with Shane Warne, Australia's great lost captain. But Lillee's response to Hughes's promotion was more than a little dubious. In the nets, Lillee would bowl line and length to everyone, until Hughes arrived. Then he would come on off his long run and ram in a series of bouncers. Hughes needed an X-ray before the start of the Ashes, with fears that Lillee had broken his forearm. In Golden Boy, the former Australian batsman Craig Serjeant describes the time Lillee followed through to collect a bouncer and said 'Sorry'. This went on for years. Hughes did not complain once. The tears upon resigning the captaincy make it easy to conclude that he was weak, yet the situation was far more complex than that. Hughes was put under an incomparable strain, yet still managed to bounce back almost every time. He was also Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket courageous, as he showed in the nets against Lillee — and during his defining innings, an unbeaten against the West Indies attack of Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Colin Croft and Joel Garner on a Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket pitch at Melbourne in Nobody else passed Ian Chappell, no fan of Hughes, rated it as the greatest post-war innings by an Australian. That was one of three extraordinary innings in the space of 18 months. His outrageous against India at Adelaide a year earlier showcased his thrilling propensity to charge the fast bowlers, before thrashing a series of scintillating cover drives for four, while his 84 in the Centenary Test of was one of the most brilliant attacking innings ever played at Lord's. It included one remarkable shot off Chris Old that, according to some, was still rising when it struck the top deck of the pavilion. Keith Miller, commentating at the time, described it as "one of the biggest hits I've seen for many, many a year". Hughes retained an amateur attitude to batting, and never quite found the balance between wanting to entertain and Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket to score runs. It's one of the many reasons why he is one of the more charming and interesting cricketers of modern times. He is now great friends with Lillee and Marsh, a bizarre and unexpected postscript. To enter the competition, email rob. To sign up click here. Andy Bull is back next week. Topics Australia cricket team The Spin. Cricket blogposts. Reuse Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket content. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. Loading comments… Trouble loading? Most popular. Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket by Christian Ryan Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Golden Boy by Christian Ryan. Kim Hughes was one of the most Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket and daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 years. Golden curled and boyishly handsome, his rise and fall as captain and player is unparalleled in our cricketing history. He played at least three innings that count as all-time classics, but it's his tearful resignation from the captaincy that is remembered. Insecure but a Kim Hughes was one of the most majestic and daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 years. Insecure but arrogant, abrasive but charming; in Hughes' character were the seeds of his own destruction. Yet was Hughes' fall partly due to those around him, men who are themselves legends in Australia's cricketing history? Lillee, Marsh, and the Chappells, all had their agendas, all were unhappy with his selection and performance as captain—evidenced by Dennis Lillee's tendency to aim bouncers relentlessly at Hughes' head during net practice. As he traces the high points and the low, Chris Ryan sheds new and fascinating light on the cricket—and the cricketers—of the times. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published March 1st by Allen Unwin first published January 3rd More Details Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Golden Boyplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. It must be appreciated that this review is written by an Englishman, born in As such, my earliest cricketing memory was Headingley, I knew something amazing was happening because of the delirious nature of my parents towards the game that they normally fell asleep watching. As such I had no appreciation of what Messrs. Botham and Willis were doing, I could only assume that it was worth being awake for. Alan Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket was the first Australian cricket captain that I can remember, a harbing It must be appreciated that this review is written by an Englishman, born in Alan Border was the first Australian cricket captain that I can remember, a harbinger of endless English misery. When it comes to making a balls up of things, I always thought Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket the ECB stood head and shoulders above any other cricketing authority. Ryan highlights their biggest problem of greed. Greed that would contribute to players going on rebel tours of South Africa. But, as the title suggests, this book is essentially about just one man, Kim Hughes. Being English, being born inI knew very little about Kim Hughes. Barnum, part Frank Spencer. A sort of cricketing hybrid of Mariah Carey and Mr. Just like Barnum and Carey, Hughes was phenomenally talented, and just like Barnum and Carey, Hughes wanted to entertain. His attempts to entertain were often as memorable for their failures as their successes. Because of this, the book can be a little uncomfortable to read at times, as Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket goes from one escapade to another, shooting himself in one foot then the other. Ryan depicts a character that you can feel genuine warmth towards one minute, turn the page and then be considering him a complete dick.
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