Based on extensive research and interviews with leading sports executives, "Pommies" is the first book to investigate the management of professional cricket in England. Three years after the great Ashes victory in 2005, the England team has reverted to type. In 2007, it lost three out of four Test series and got nowhere in the ICC World Cup and Twenty20 tournaments. Since 1987, Australia has thrashed England 34-9 in Tests and won four World Cups to England's none. Today, Australia has five cricket stadiums with more than 30,000 seats to England's none. Their team is accessible to all on Channel Nine, but England fans have to pay GBP400 a year for Sky. Using Australia as the model and inspiration, "Pommies" explains what is wrong with England cricket and presents a radical plan to improve the national team and open up the game for fans.
- ISBN10 1906510326
- ISBN13 9781906510329
- Publish Date 23 April 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Troubador Publishing
- Imprint Matador
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 335
- Language English