The battle for the Ashes between Australia’s and England’s cricket teams is sport’s longest running international competition. It has produced the very best performances that the ancient game can offer, and the fiercest rivalries. Sir Donald Bradman, the twentieth century’s greatest cricketer and captain, saw more of cricket’s finest players than any other individual. He was the game’s most accomplished selector, helping to choose Australia’s Ashes teams over 37 years - from 1934 when he was vice captain until 1971 when he was chairman of the Australian Cricket Board.
This vast experience, coupled with Bradman’s profound knowledge of cricket history, made him uniquely qualified to select the best Ashes teams ever. His studies took in the nineteenth century, when giants such as W. G. Grace, Will Murdoch, Tom Richardson and Fred Spofforth bestrode the cricketing world, as well as the modern era, when the likes of Ian Botham, Dennis Lillee, David Gower and Steve Waugh dominated the game. His choices do not simply represent a list of the sport’s top performers, but finely balanced combinations of players selected for their skills and likely overall contributions to the respective teams.
In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, Bradman shares his opinions in vivid individual portraits of each selected player. He also unveils his nominations for the best five individual batting and bowling performances in all the Australia versus England contests that he personally witnessed, along with his own best five innings. Controversial, thought-provoking and always fascinating, Bradman’s Best Ashes Teams has something for every cricket fan and is bound to be the most talked-about cricket book of the year.
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