Author(s): Gideon Haigh

Sport

In an era infatuated with the new, the summer of 2010 11 put cricket's oldest trophy, the Ashes, on the line, with apparently nothing to pick between Australia and England. Gideon Haigh saw every ball bowled as a crushing verdict was returned against a country that had dominated the international game for nearly two decades. How good was England? How bad was Australia? What can or should be done? Out of the Running graphically explains how a team living on past glories confronted present realities, and plunged from world number one to number five in little more than a year. It is a frank, shrewd and often very funny look at the worst home summer in the history of Australian cricket.