Background
He was born in London, raised in Geelong and currently lives in Melbourne.
He was born in London, raised in Geelong and currently lives in Melbourne.
Haigh began his career as a journalist, writing on business for The Age newspaper from 1984 to 1992 and for The Australian from 1993 to 1995. He has since contributed to over 70 newspapers and magazines, both on business topics and on sport, mostly cricket. He wrote regularly for The Guardian during the 2006-2007 Ashes series and has featured also in The Times and the Financial Times.
Haigh has authored 19 books and edited seven more.
Of those on a cricketing theme, his historical works includes The Cricket War and Summer Game. He has also published several books on business-related topics, such as The Battle for BHP, Asbestos House (which dilates the James Hardie asbestos controversy) and Bad Company, an examination of the Chief Executive Officer phenomenon.
He mostly publishes with Aurum Press. Haigh was appointed editor of the Wisden Cricketers" Almanack Australia for 1999–2000 and 2000-2001.
Since March 2006, he has been a regular panellist on the American Broadcasting Company television sports panel show Offsiders.
He was also a regular co-host on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 American Broadcasting Company Melbourne until near the end of 2006. Haigh has been known to be critical of what he regards as the deification of Sir Donald Bradman and "the cynical exploitation of his name by the mediocre and the greedy". He did so in a September 1998 article in Wisden Cricket Monthly entitled "Sir Donald Brandname".
Haigh has been critical of Bradman"s biographer Roland Perry, writing in The Australian that Perry"s biography was guilty of "glossing over or ignoring anything to Bradman"s discr".
He asserted that the quality of discourse could suffer as a source of information"s worth is judged by Google according to its previous degree of exposure to the status quo. He believes the pool of information available to those using Google as their sole avenue of inquiry is inevitably limited and possibly compromised due to covert commercial influences.
Haigh blogged on the 2009 Ashes series for The Wisden Cricketer. Haigh addressed the tenth Bradman Oration in Melbourne on 24 October 2012.