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The Ashes: It's All About the Urn - England vs. Australia: ultimate cricket rivalry (Paperback)
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The Ashes: It's All About the Urn - England vs. Australia: ultimate cricket rivalry (Paperback)
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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.
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