About the Author

Geoff Armstrong has been involved in sports writing as author, editor, publisher and researcher for over a decade. He wrote the official centenary book of the Sheffield Shield A Century of Summers and he compiled and edited the rugby league anthology The Greatest Game. He is co-author with Mark Gately of the first history of Australia in international one-day cricket and together with Mike Whitney he wrote Whiticisms. Geoff has also worked with Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh on all seven of Waugh's best-selling books and in 2000 he co-wrote Phar Lap with Peter Thompson.