Andrew Ramsey, sports writer for The Australian for ten years, has written the hot favourite title on this year’s ABC Books Christmas list:

Contrary to the age-old sporting truism, what happens on tour sometimes needs to be told. The Wrong Line is a unique, insider’s account of Australia’s champion cricket team as it travelled the far corners of the world during its golden era of the late ‘90s, and the start of the 21st Century. More than a tour diary or a sanitised autobiography, it delivers a rare insight into the off-field lifestyle, character and thoughts of some of the game’s all-time greats, including Stephen Waugh, Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Brian Lara.