Past Event

Martin Flanagan talks sport with Gideon Haigh

8th Dec 2010

Presenter: New International Bookshop
Website: http://www.newinternationalbookshop.org.au
Event Duration: 120 minutes

Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?”

In his new book Sphere of Influence, Gideon Haigh follows cricket’s biggest story since Kerry Packer’s ‘World Series’: the rise of Twenty20 and its glamour competition, the Indian Premier League.

How did India come to run world cricket? How did clubs owned by billionaires and Bollywood stars begin to shove international competition aside? How did money unite players and divide administrators, amid allegations of massive corruption?

For this special event Gideon will be racing back from the Second Test in Adelaide, and he will be joined on stage by The Age’s Martin Flanagan. So pull up a chair, sit back with a beer – and enjoy two of Melbourne’s finest writers going toe-to-toe on all the big issues in Australian and international sport.