The All-rounder

Dan Christian is one of the world's most sought after cricketers, not only a star for the Sydney Sixers but having been part of teams in premier leagues from India and Pakistan to South Africa and the Caribbean. In The All-Rounder, he takes us on a globe-trotting tour from Karachi to the Caribbean, from the billion-dollar Indian Premier League, where he played for Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore, to an Aussie comeback in St Lucia. It was a never-ending summer like no other, shadowed by COVID-19, encased in bio-secure bubbles, in which Dan also reflected on his indigenous heritage and grappled with imminent fatherhood, all the while concentrating on a fast-evolving, high-stakes game in which you're a champion one day, a chump the next. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist since 1984, written forty-two books, edited seven others, and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines. He works for The Australian and The Times.