Author acknowledgements

 

The authors would like to express their greatest appreciation to the Hughes family for their warmth, hospitality, energy, patience and kindness.

The authors would also like to thank the following, who generously gave their time to be interviewed for this book: Ashton Agar, Lloyd Andrews, George Bailey, Terry Baldwin, Sharnie Barabas, Darren Berry, Daniel Burns, Beau Casson, Steve Cazzulino, Greg Chappell, Michael Clarke, Kay Clews, Tom Cooper, Trent Copeland, David Cotton, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ed Cowan, Jamie Cox, Brendan Cunningham, Joel Dallas, Matthew Day, Neil D’Costa, Ian Dinham, Alex Doolan, Jason Ellsmore, Aaron Finch, Peter Forrest, Brett Forsyth, David Freedman, Brett Geeves, Stan Gilchrist, Darren Goodger, Mitchell Harvey, James Henderson, Michael Hill, Gregory Hughes, Helen Hughes, Ian Hughes, Jason Hughes, Megan Hughes, Virginia Hughes, David Hussey, Mike Hussey, Corey Ireland, Shariful Islam, Phil Jaques, Alan Jones, Brady Jones, Simon Katich, Simon Keen, Usman Khawaja, Virat Kohli, Justin Langer, Josh Lawrence, Warwick Lawrence, Barry Lockyer, Tim Ludeman, Mitch Lonergan, Morrie Lonergan, Nic Maddinson, Andrew Maggs, Tom Mann, Rod Marsh, Bryce McGain, Ken McNamara, Matthew Mott, Tim Nielsen, Steve O’Keefe, David O’Neil, Ricky Ponting, Nino Ramunno, Angela Ramunno, Steve Rhodes, Sam Robson, Ben Rohrer, Daniel Smith, Nathan Smith, Warren Smith, Ash Squire, Steve Tomlinson, Damian Toohey, Michael Townsend, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Shane Watson.

Thanks also for their assistance: Jason Bakker, Malcolm Conn, Tony Connelly, Matt Costello, Angus Fontaine, Jodie Hawkins, Phil Hillyard, Jim Kelly, Richard King, Foong Ling Kong, Jim Robson, Jonathan Rose, Danielle Walker, and especially James Henderson. Thank you to Michael Clarke for his foreword.