Battle for "The Ashes"
Battle for "The Ashes"
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The Ashes series has turned a sleeping nation back into an army of cricket fanatics. This book is an account of what has already been hailed as the greatest ever Ashes as recounted by one of cricket's greatest writers. Win, lose or draw, the series has already been a victory for sportsmanship and contains some encounters that will be unforgotten.
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Battle for "The Ashes" by David Frith
The current Ashes series has sensationally turned a sleeping nation back into an army of cricket fanatics - with tens of thousands locked out of every Test and cricket trumping even Premiership football for back page prominence. As England's young hopefuls - Flintoff, Pietersen et al - took on an Australian team of Ponting and Warne that most pundits regarded as the finest team the world had ever seen, could this become the year that England (the only unbeaten Test team in the world in 2004) reverse its losing run of eight consecutive Ashes losses? This is the blow-by-blow account of what has already been hailed as the greatest ever Ashes as recounted by one of cricket's greatest writers. Win, lose or draw the series has already been a victory for pure sporting excellence and heroic sportsmanship and contains some incredible once-in-a-lifetime encounters that will never be forgotten.
David Frith, an award-winning cricket author, has seen almost every Ashes Test of the post-war era. His book Bodyline Autopsy (2002) was nominated for the William Hill Award, while By His Own Hand: A Study of Cricket's Suicides (1991) was recently voted one of the Observer Sport Monthly's Top 50 Sports Books of All Time. His pictorial history of England versus Australia Test matches is a classic with over 100,000 copies sold. A former editor of The Cricketer and the founder of Wisden Cricket Monthly, he lives in Guildford, Surrey.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780091910846 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091910846 |
| Title | Battle for "The Ashes" |
| Author | David Frith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |