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This superb anthology showcases 100 years of peerless writing on the Ashes from The Cricketer magazine. Insightful new contributions from today's best cricket writers including Gideon Haigh, Simon Hughes and Huw Turbervill sit alongside vintage reports, features and comment pieces from greats including Pelham 'Plum' Warner, EW Swanton and Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

Relive the brilliance of Don Bradman, Harold Larwood, Jim Laker, Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Botham, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff and others in this fresh new take on the giants of the game. Featuring Simon Hughes' ultimate Ashes XI, Gideon Haigh's five greatest series and lively detours into the controversies and scandals which have defined sport's greatest contest, this definitive history from the world's foremost cricket magazine is as colourful as the Ashes themselves.



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Splendid...There is some great writing here, some great nostalgia, and plenty to keep you entertained on a cold winter's night. Above all, it is a timely reminder of the history and heritage of cricket's greatest rivalry. * Yorkshire Post *

The Cricketer Anthology of the Ashes

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      Publisher Allen & Unwin
      Published 11 December 2017
      ISBN-13 9781760630744
      978-1760630744
      ISBN-10 1760630748
      Also in:
      Cricket History of sport Sport: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This superb anthology showcases 100 years of peerless writing on the Ashes from The Cricketer magazine. Insightful new contributions from today's best cricket writers including Gideon Haigh, Simon Hughes and Huw Turbervill sit alongside vintage reports, features and comment pieces from greats including Pelham 'Plum' Warner, EW Swanton and Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

      Relive the brilliance of Don Bradman, Harold Larwood, Jim Laker, Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Botham, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff and others in this fresh new take on the giants of the game. Featuring Simon Hughes' ultimate Ashes XI, Gideon Haigh's five greatest series and lively detours into the controversies and scandals which have defined sport's greatest contest, this definitive history from the world's foremost cricket magazine is as colourful as the Ashes themselves.



      Trade Review
      Splendid...There is some great writing here, some great nostalgia, and plenty to keep you entertained on a cold winter's night. Above all, it is a timely reminder of the history and heritage of cricket's greatest rivalry. * Yorkshire Post *

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