da dobrowin： A review of the last Ashes by a fan (and a sort of expert)
da marjack bet： Sahil Dutta10-Sep-2011I’m not sure who first warned never to judge a book by its cover but they were wrong. , Two Pricks said much about how the media is changing.Kimber’s journey shows how the digital age has pierced through the closed print club. More writers – from in and out of the press box – now file more copy, more often, and are read by more people online. “There are so many words on cricket, it’s hard to find new insight,” Kimber writes. “A daily light-hearted video was a whole different medium. It was something that the cricket media hadn’t done.” The tension created by a coarse upstart sharing the stage with the established hacks is something Kimber revels in retelling in the book.It is refreshing to read something so brazenly indifferent to the norm. As Kimber writes in the book, Michael Clarke has one of the most carefully assembled public presences in the game, yet he’s the most disliked cricketer in Australia. Instead Doug Bollinger, untrained, clumsy but incapable of being anything but honest, is loved by the Aussie public. What’s more, the advertisers – who Clarke is a product of – flock to Bollinger. There is something instructive about that. Other Ashes books might say all the right things, with quotes from all the right people, but this is the fix cricket sadists would really enjoy.Australian Autopsy
Jarrod Kimber
Pitch Publishing