Eddie Gilbert, who was best remembered as the aboriginal cricketer to play first- class cricket in Australia. He was a sensational cricketer of 1930's. The Aboriginal cricket legend remains a mysterious figure – while he was once as famous as Don Bradman – today, people’s knowledge of Eddie Gilbert is often limited to the fact that he once got ‘the Don out for a duck’ – if they know anything about him at all. The book is biography of Eddie Gilbert which covers his early life, how he got into cricket and why he was chosen to play for Queensland’s Sheffield Shield side.

It has been compiled by Mike Coleman and Ken Edwards who have spent nearly eight years to know about this legendary of cricket. The book documents how for an Aboriginal sporting legend it was highly eventful to play the first class cricket match. His quick rise from district cricket, playing for Barambah – the Aboriginal settlement he lived in – to the Sheffield side saw him become a household name in the early 1930’s.

He became feared as the fasted bowler in Australia, his extraordinary action which according to Coleman and Edwards, developed from throwing a boomerang of bowling off only a few steps, was extremely mind blowing. People did come to watch him out of curiosity factor and wanted to see his lightning fast ball. The book get the reader caught up in the step-by-step description of Eddie Gilbert rise and fall. The biography relates extraordinary in its detail, and portrays the tragic downfall of Eddie Gilbert’s latter days with poignancy.‘Eddie Gilbert’ is not a cricket story nor all About Cricket. It is a tragic human tale of somebody who fell victim of the system. It is also a stark reminder of Australia’s treatment of Indigenous people – and how good intentions by many Europeans destroyed generations of Aboriginal Australians. It is one The Best of Cricket Books for sports lover across the globe.


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