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The Birth of the Ashes. The Amazing Story of the First Ashes Test (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Birth of the Ashes. The Amazing Story of the First Ashes Test (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Discovery Miles 3 660
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Here, for the first time, the Oval Test match of 1882 - every bit
as dramatic as anything in the 2005 season - is recreated ball by
ball all the way to the agonising climax when Australia won by 7
runs. Here, too, is the social context of that match, from the
founding of Australia, spiced with a host of insights into how
cricket was born and how it grew in a vast, rugged land. The story
of The Ashes is more, much more. When the Hon. Ivo Bligh took an
England team to Australia in 1882 - 83 he said he was going to
reclaim the Ashes of English cricket, lost at the Oval. That led to
a meeting with a property baron near Melbourne, an invitation for
the team to stay at his mansion for Christmas - a knock-about match
against the staff - and the baron's wife, who had a little urn on
her mantelpiece. We know what went in it!
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