The Ashes

The Ashes It's All About the Urn : England Vs. Australia, Ultimate Cricket Rivalry

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Publisher's Synopsis

Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards

Graeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world sport's most engrossing rivalries. He knows as much as anybody about the heat of England v Australia battles, having played in three series wins and also the whitewash defeat of 2013-14 when its intensity ended his international career. However, it brought out some of his best displays in Test cricket.

But he is just one of dozens of colourful characters to have added their chapters to this great tome. The mock obituary of English cricket in the Sporting Times of 1882 was the forerunner of summers and winters of heaven and hell, depending on which side of the divide you were situated. When it comes to on-field relations nothing quite compares to the over-my-dead-body feel of the Ashes.

From Grace to Sir Don, the most graceful of them all. From the foulest play to the fairest - contrast the 1932-33 Bodyline series affair to the image of Andrew Flintoff hunched over a distraught Brett Lee in 2005. From Ray Illingworth's famous walk-off in the Seventies, when an England team-mate was assaulted by a spectator, to Steve Waugh's hugely emotional lap of honour when he retired a quarter of a century later. Swann's book will reveal the magic of a series that first gripped him in his front room in Northampton as an aspiring spin bowler in the mid-1980s.

Book information

ISBN: 9781473670853
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Pub date:
Edition: Updated edition
DEWEY: 796.35865
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 282g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 25mm