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Gentlemen and sledgers : a history of the Ashes in 100 quotations and confrontations
- Title
- Gentlemen and sledgers : a history of the Ashes in 100 quotations and confrontations / Rob Smyth.
- Author
- Smyth, Rob.
- Publication
- London Head Of Zeus, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xvii, 368 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In August 1882 ... England suffered their first Test defeat by Australia on home soil ... it ... prompted boozy journalist Reginald Brooks to pen an ironic obituary lamenting the death of English cricket. "The body", he wrote, "will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia." Brooks' words would change the course of cricket history for ever. [This book] charts the ebb and flow of Anglo-Australian cricketing fortunes across 133 years and 320 matches by telling the stories behind 100 classic Ashes quotations ... the quotes embrace quips, insults, examples of the dark art of 'sledging' - and even the occasional considered cricketing judgement. Evoking memorable moments and matches as well as highs and lows in the careers of Australia and England's greatest players, [this] is an informal, freewheeling, and entertainingly opinionated history of cricket's greatest rivalry"--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFD 15-3479
- ISBN
- 1784080802
- 9781784080808
- OCLC
- 908915757
- Author
- Smyth, Rob.
- Title
- Gentlemen and sledgers : a history of the Ashes in 100 quotations and confrontations / Rob Smyth.
- Publisher
- London Head Of Zeus, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-3479