**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**
WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010
_________________ Golden Boy is a blistering expose of the
tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as
viewed through the lens of flawed genius Kim Hughes.
_________________ Kim Hughes was one of the most majestic and
daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 years. Golden
curled and boyishly handsome, his rise and fall as captain and
player is unparalleled in cricketing history. He played several
innings that count as all-time classics, but it's his tearful
resignation from the captaincy that is remembered. Insecure but
arrogant, abrasive but charming; in Hughes' character were the
seeds of his own destruction. Yet was Hughes' fall partly due to
those around him, men who are themselves legends in Australia's
cricketing history? Lillee, Marsh, the Chappells, all had their
agendas, all were unhappy with his selection and performance as
captain - evidenced by Dennis Lillee's tendency to aim bouncers
relentlessly at Hughes' head during net practice. Hughes' arrival
on the Test scene coincided with the most turbulent time Australian
cricket has ever seen - first Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket,
then the rebel tours to South Africa. Both had dramatic effects on
Hughes' career. As he traces the high points and the low, Christian
Ryan sheds new and fascinating light on the cricket - and the
cricketers - of the times.
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