Cook, Anderson, Trott and Tremlett were written off or ignored by the Australians before the series - how wrong they were - GIDEON HAIGH applauds the four who came to the fore
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GIDEON HAIGH: I have a favourite memory of Bishan Bedi at Lord's, a decade after he retired, when he was, briefly and improbably, India's coach...
FROM THE MAG: Each month in The Cricketer GIDEON HAIGH writes about a favourite photograph of his. For our June issue he chose a candid off-field shot of the great Jack Hobbs
GIDEON HAIGH: When 22-year-old Donald Bradman returned from his all‑conquering tour of England in 1930, there was probably no more renowned Australian in the empire
GIDEON HAIGH: Meet George Giffen. For the majority of readers, the name will echo only faintly. But he was South Australia's first Test cricketer and Australia's first formidable all-round cricketer
GIDEON HAIGH: Cricket since the onset of the pandemic has been a lonely old job where one has had to look very hard for any compensating joys
GIDEON HAIGH: Leadership is a lonely role by definition. The leader has no peers, only followers, looking for guidance, judging its quality
Each month GIDEON HAIGH writes about a favourite photograph of his
GIDEON HAIGH: Big Bell is one of 200 sites featuring on an evocative Instagram gallery, Abandoned Cricket Pitches – the fruit of two years of weekend road trips and incurable curiosity
GIDEON HAIGH: Graves once said that he approached everything in his life in a poetic spirit, about which there was nothing fey or light‑hearted
GIDEON HAIGH: There is something of the period in this shot: in the wide collars and breast pockets of the 1970s playing shirts; in the sideburns and solitary sly cigarette of the Indian press corps behind
GIDEON HAIGH: Freedom, order; ends, beginnings; ruptures, continuities. There is all cricket to see here
GIDEON HAIGH: Tendulkar stands here, legs-crossed, as though at the non‑striker’s end, except that his partner is a car not a cricketer. It is a good car. It must be a good car if Sachin is adjacent to it...
GIDEON HAIGH: By reducing them to silhouettes, Eagar also successfully conveys how conditions in cricket can render even the best players abjectly helpless
GIDEON HAIGH: Selectors once dwelt well above the fray, their tenures long and orderly. Sir Donald Bradman served in the capacity for 35 years, which were by no means a pageant of non-stop success, at least after he was unable to select himself
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