📚 Book: Sultan: A Memoir | ✍️ Author: Gideon Haigh | Episode 9

Book Café Podcast

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Renowned Sports Writer and Journalist Gideon Haigh discusses his latest book "Sultan: A Memoir", co-written with and about Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram.
✍️ Author's bio:
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for four decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, and published close to fifty books. "The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; "On Warne" was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; "Certain Admissions" won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime; and "Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket" was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction.
▶️ Wasim Akram's Official YouTube Channel: Wasim Akram
▶️ Imran Khan's Official YouTube Channel: Imran Khan
▶️ Cricket Australia's Official YouTube Channel: Cricket Australia
▶️ The Australian Official YouTube Channel: The Australian
▶️ PCB's Official YouTube Channel: Pakistan Cricket
▶️ LCCC's Official YouTube Channel: LancsTV
📚 Book Review by Omar Nizam:
Some twenty years after his retirement from international cricket, @wasimakramliveofficial (in collaboration with Sports Journalist @gideon_haigh ) comes out with a tell-all book that feels like an unplayable stump rattling yorker.
Akram is undoubtedly one of the greatest to have ever played the game. But his poor treatment at the hands of the Pakistani cricket establishment and some sections of the cricket watching public have finally culminated in a story written at the behest of his wife @iamshaniera that will both shock and amaze even the most ardent cricket fan.
Intrigue follows counter intrigue as the Pakistan cricket team is consistently portrayed as a den of thieves rather than as a unified, coherent unit.
At the end of the book, the die-hard Pakistani cricket fan can only be left wondering at just how much more scarily successful the team MIGHT have been if not for continually falling on it's own sword.
The book deserves nothing short of full marks - four for the writing and one for the unsung hero Shaniera Akram - without whom this maelstrom of a story would have remained reticent and never seen the light of day.
My rating: 5/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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