Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics
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See moreNo sport does storytelling like cricket – a game as full of heroes, villains, politics, and drama as any Shakespearean play.
And few have explored those stories as far and wide as Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the history spin-off to beloved podcast The Final Word, they have followed their listeners’ clues to track down the wildest characters, matches, and situations the pitch has seen.
Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics brings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, from the 1879 riot in Sydney sparked by an umpire’s call, the all-rounder who tried to rob the Catholic Church, the biggest defeat in history, and much more.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923419049
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 November 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Adam Collins is an Australian cricket
journalist, author, and broadcaster. Before that he worked
as a senior adviser to a federal Labor government, and for
the organising committee of the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games. A Melbourne sports nut from
central casting, he follows cricket and footy first, but plenty
more. He has been named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Broadcaster of the Year, and co-authored Glenn Maxwell’s
autobiography.
Geoff Lemon’s cricket exploits include
founding pirate commentary station White Line Wireless,
graduating to ABC and BBC ball-by-ball around the world,
and spending the last dozen years as the principal cricket
writer for Guardian Australia. His book Steve Smith’s Men,
on the Cape Town sandpaper scandal, won multiple awards.
Outside cricket, he was the longtime editor of literary
anthology Going Down Swinging, director of the National
Young Writers Festival, has published books of poetry and
essays, and still writes on politics, literature, and music.
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