Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season

Gideon Haigh is not just an acclaimed cricket historian, the biographer of Jack Iverson and Warwick Armstrong. He is also a devoted club cricketer, chairman of selectors of the Yarras Cricket Club Fourth Eleven. In this warm and engaging book, Haigh turns his analytical gaze upon his own endeavours as a sportsman, and those of his fellow members of The Yarras - surely one of the most inept and endearing teams ever to infest the field.

The Vincibles sums up the quintessentially Australian experience of suburban sport: mateship, optimism (however ungrounded), compromise, a spirit of fun and the true enjoyment of a shared enterprise (however doomed).

The Vincibles is a funny and very readable book. It s the diary of an unforgettable summer in which his team exceeded even its own extraordinary expectations to play off for the premiership.