CONTENTS

Preface to the 2007 edition

    Prologue ‘Jesus, it’s not going to work’

    1 ‘These are not professionals’

    2 ‘You think this is a fucking democracy, do you?’

    3 ‘Where do I sign?’

    4 ‘How come you’re worth all that money?’

    5 ‘War situation’

    6 ‘Just like old Aussie, eh?’

    7 ‘If you fuck it up we could lose the whole $12 million’

    8 ‘Half a house brick at a hundred miles an hour’

    9 ‘We cannot afford to let this man down’

  10 ‘The best bunch of cricketers I’ve ever seen … with one exception’

  11 ‘It’s gotta be the world’s most expensive cricket bat’

  12 ‘Simmo bring down a shit side’

  13 ‘Sweet reason’

  14 ‘Listen, about those helmets’

  15 ‘These people have found truth’

  16 ‘Rejected, dejected, we’re sorry we’re born’

  17 ‘I feel very sorry for the Australians’

  18 ‘I think this Lennie want to kill you man’

  19 ‘One to the eye, one to the bollocks’

  20 ‘We were representing our country, but it wasn’t important’

  21 ‘These are professionals, and they’ll behave as professionals’

 

Afterword to the 2007 edition

Complete World Series Cricket Statistics compiled by Ross Dundas

Bibliography

Index